IE 8 Is Top Browser, Google Chrome Is Rising Fast

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 1, 2010 @12:58PM from the trend-is-your-friend dept.

An anonymous reader points out that the latest Net Applications numbers show that MSIE 8 has become the world's most-used browser, taking over from IE6, which has been hit by the decline in the use of Windows XP. PCMag.com emphasizes another angle on the numbers, which is that Chrome is the fastest-growing browser. Firefox's market share has stalled just below 25%. Chrome is now in third place, ahead of Safari. The Guardian's article reminds: "There's no guarantee that NetApps' numbers are accurate, and they are very unlikely to be correct to two decimal places. However, they do appear to be a good indicator of market trends."

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Re:Going by rendering engines... by Eskarel · 2010-02-01 13:23 · Score: 5, Informative

To be pedantic since you're talking about Gecko and Webkit, the layout engine for Internet Explorer is called trident, and Opera's is Presto.
Re:I downloaded Chromium a few days ago by Tumbleweed · 2010-02-01 14:05 · Score: 5, Informative

Strangely, now that I no longer browse Slashdot with Firefox, Firefox behaves significantly better than it has been. Apparently, one of the absolute worst sites for the overall performance of Firefox is this one.
Do a validation test on this page. I just got: 104 Errors, 2 warning(s)
*whew*
I'd get fucking FIRED if I put out that kind of crap at work.