An analytics company called Net Applications has determined that Google’s Chrome web browser is stealing market share from both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
In January, ChromeChromeChrome grew by 0.57% to 5.20% of the browser market. Meanwhile, FirefoxFirefoxFirefox shrunk by 0.20% to 24.41% and IE shrunk 0.51% to 62.18%. Safari and Opera both stayed put, more or less; SafariSafariSafari grew 0.05% to 4.51% and OperaOperaOpera shrunk 0.02% to 2.38%.
You might recall that Chrome passed Safari to grab third place in the browser market a month ago; it seems probable that the ground Chrome is gaining is at Microsoft and Mozilla’s expense, although no direct causation has been definitively established by Net Applications’ numbers.