In the battle for your browsing activities, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has remained a dominant force for years despite competition from Safari and Firefox. Data from Net Applications demonstrates that while there have been no massive changes in marketshare from month to month, Chrome continues to eat away at IE’s share.In the time between August and September, browser market share stayed pretty much the same. Chrome gained almost half a percent (.46%), Firefox s aw just a .03% bump and Safari just an additional 0.11%.

All very unremarkable, except that Internet Explorer lost .75% share in the same interim, even amidst the release of its upgrade IE9.

Still, less than a percent movement in either direction is not especially worthy of note, until you consider change over time.

Of course, browser market share is a difficult thing to measure, as there’s no guarantee that these stats are 100% accurate. But the measurement in change over time does seem to suggest that Chrome is carving out a nice foothold in the browser war. 7.98% does not a winner make, so it will be interesting to see how things play out over the course of the next few months.

What is your favourite browser and why?….

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