Google's Chrome is the fastest growing browser in the market according to the latest data from web monitoring firm Net Applications. Skip related content
Chrome saw its share increase to 3.6 per cent from 3.4 percent from September to October, while the biggest loser was Internet Explorer (IE), which was down from 65.7 percent to 64.6 percent.
Mozilla's Firefox, which rose 0.3 points to 24.1 per cent, with Safari rising from 4.2 per cent to 4.4 per cent with Opera showing almost no growth 2.2 per cent.
Net Applications uses a network of around 40,000 internet monitoring stations and the figures are for global market, and as such the increase represents huge numbers of internet customers.
The data also shows that both Chrome and Firefox users were far more likely to be using up to date versions of their browser than those using IE.
Most IE users (23.3 per cent) use version six of the browser, with IE 7 at 18.2 per cent and IE 8 at 18.1 per cent.
