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Chrome Passes 25% Market Share, IE and Firefox Slip

Posted by timothy on from the none-of-them-are-perfect dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In April 2015, we saw the naming of Microsoft Edge, the release of Chrome 42, and the first full month of Firefox 37 availability. Now we're learning that Google's browser has finally passed the 25 percent market share mark. Hit the link for some probably unnecessarily fine-grained statistics on recent browser trends. Have your browser habits shifted recently? Which browsers do you use most often?

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  1. Re:Chrome - the web browser that's added as bloatw by Dog-Cow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Forgive them for being pragmatic instead of dogmatic. Forgive them for using a perfectly good browser that's preinstalled instead of wading into some obscure nerd-war against Microsoft. In other words, forgive them for being normal people.

  2. Re:Chrome - the web browser that's added as bloatw by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's also often a corporate standard, especially for companies and their clients with older, Windows specific software tools. And many proxies are configured to lie about the web client they are proxying for, in order to provide access to upstream websites which demand IE. There are many examples, such as:

            http://unix.stackexchange.com/...