There has not been a lot of movement in the browser market in August 2010. Microsoft lost 0.34% with their Internet Explorer browser while Google gained nearly the same share (0.36%). Firefox remained stable and gained 0.02%, Safari gained 0.07% and Opera lost 0.08%.
The picture looks different when individual browser versions are analyzed. Internet Explorer 8 gained 1.03%, the most in market share in the month of August 2010. Both Internet Explorer 7 (-0.79%) and Internet Explorer 6 (-0.82%) have lost market share considerably. Firefox 3.6 gained 0.65% and Chrome 6 gained 0.29%.
Those browsers had the biggest market share in August according to NetMarketshare, a company that tracks share statistics for Internet technologies.
The statistics of Statcounter show a similar trend, albeit with different numbers. The Internet Explorer market share dropped by 1.34% but still sits comfortably at 51.34%.
browser market share august 2010
The Firefox web browser managed to gain 0.40% of market share in August 2010, and ended up with a market share of 31.095. Chrome was the big winner that month breaking the 10% barrier for the first time. Statcounter recorded a market share of 10.76%, a gain of 0.88% over the last month.
Both Opera and Safari remained stable at 1.9% respectively 4.2% market share.
The trends of the last months continue. Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are dropped by users, while Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome manage to gain that market share. It is likely that this trend will continue for some time. The release of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 are most likely to break that pattern.
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IE9 if a fail from start as it doesn’t support XP users (75% in enterprise, 60+% home users).