
Chrome lovers rejoice! Google’s Chrome web browser has managed to shove Apple’s Safari away from the prized third spot in browser market share and claim it with a total market share of 4.63%, beating Safari’s 4.46%. Of course, the gain has to come at the expense of another browser, and that browser happens to be Microsoft’s Internet Explorer which is continuing to fall down the ranks at 0.92% per month.
IE still stands firmly at the top with a 62.7% market share, but projections show that this could go as low as 50% by May, with other browsers (mainly Firefox and Chrome) picking up the crowds leaving IE. Hopefully some of this drop will come out of the IE6 users, which apparently still make up 21% of all market share.
Net Applications, the company that brings us these statistics, monitors traffic from approximately 40,000 websites which generate a total of 160 million unique visitors per month. The statistics from them should be rather solid.