Jan. '10 Browser Market Share: Google Chrome at 5%, IE and Firefox still dominate

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Software February 1, 2010

Browser Share Jan 10

Browser market share data for January 2010 has hit the streets, and it looks like Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari have gained a little — and we do mean a little — ground. Chrome posted a 5.2% hold of market share in January, up from 4.6% in December of 2009. Apple’s Safari came in with a 4.51% share, up from 4.46% the previous month. Firefox and Internet Explorer both lost a tiny bit of ground in January; IE 62.2% which is down from 62.69%, Firefox 24.41% down from 24.62%. Opera was lumped into “other” on our chart, but registered 2.38% of the browser pie. Per usual, IE and FF still dominate the browser landscape with over 86% of market share. Anyone out there switch browsers recently? If so, which browser did you move to?

[Via ZDNet]

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  • crescentdave

    I’ve mostly used FF, due to it’s unmatched extensibility, but I’m using Chrome more and more. Safari on the PC side of things is … fairly irrelevant … as can be seen by market share. Chrome definitely is coming into its own as can be seen by it’s already outstripping Safari.

    • http://n/a Nick-Nick

      Definitely where Chrome is a way better than FF is portable edition.
      FF too extensively uses hard disk (USB flash in this case), and it slows the whole system. So I moved to Chrome.

  • Diabl0

    Remember, the last news about the firefox being the most-pop browser since December last week 2009? and Internet explorer as the second — Safari 3rd.. and statcounter calling Google Chrome as ‘others’, Now just a span of 1 month. Chrome claims the 3rd title. And maybe just maybe a future domination starting with the IE 8. An in-depth review: http://bit.ly/firefox-most-popular-not-so-sure

    Who say’s chrome will be deadlast now?

    ty for the link..

  • http://www.pc-prime.com Ben

    Chrome here. First they improved the javascript speed tremendously and now with the bookmark sync and extensions my life is complete. :)

    I rarely use firefox and basically only use IE for Microsoft sites. Chrome still has its hiccups and doesn’t work with everything (i’m looking at you adobe and dell!).

  • snork

    Chrome is awesome, but doesn’t have any ad-blocking. I use Firefox while in windows and Chrome in linux (because it’s way way faster than Firefox for linux.

    I think this chart should also show those who are forced to use IE for work reasons, and if so, which browser they would use given a choice.

  • Darryl Vaughn

    I’m one of the few Opera users out there. It’s fast, secure, and it has so many features built in that Firefox and Chrome need extensions for. It’s such an underrated desktop browser. People should give Opera a try. Opera FTW!!! :D

  • Matt

    Where do I fit in if I’m using all 4 for various reasons? At this point Chrome on my Mac is stellar, but my website only can be edited on Safari. I need an all purpose browser!

  • Ryan

    I switched to Opera fairly recently as well and so far I’m loving it.

    Firefox just would not act right. Lots of crashes, slowdowns, etc, and chrome didn’t seem to have the extensions that I really had to have.

    Like Darryl said, Opera has most of that stuff built in. I love it. Not going back to Firefox.

  • spas2k

    Opera sucks, I’ve never seen a web browser crash as much as that did.

  • Shelton

    I switched to chrome most secure browser online according to Geohot. so im using it. fasts browswer out there and its clean!!! no usless space.

  • Mitch

    Firefox -> Chrome -> Firefox

    Chrome still doesn’t render certain pages correctly. I love Chrome, but missing SIMPLE functionality is a dead end.

  • Jahu

    Opera all the way.

  • James

    +1 for Opera.

  • http://www.bigbadbison.com arlo

    I’m a web developer so I use all the browsers, but chrome is my favorite.

  • AdamB

    i switched from IE to Firefox at work, but from Firefox to Chrome at home.

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