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Internet Explorer 9 market share surges forward, grows faster than Chrome
These are small figures percentage-wise, but in comparison to other beta browsers, such as Chrome 8 and 9 (Canary), Internet Explorer 9 is in the lead by some margin. If you take a look down the table, you'll notice that Firefox 4 also has more beta users than Chrome.
Worldwide, IE9's market share gained by 0.21%, up to 0.32%. Chrome, across all four (!) of its public versions, only grew by 0.19%. We foresee big marketing campaigns from both Google and Microsoft in our immediate future...
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Subscribe to commentsklaksonNov 1st 2010 8:35AM
You failed to mention IE usage dropped 0.4% and Chrome gain 0.5% overall.
Sebastian AnthonyNov 1st 2010 8:35AM
Yes, IE6 and 7 dropped in usage.
That's a good thing, right? :)
JohnVillarNov 1st 2010 9:16AM
Why all this fuss about a new version of a browser? More and more people are using this beta because:
* Some workplaces don't allow alternative browsers
* IE9 is the first IE with a good Standards compliance
Also, about the FF4 usage, more and more FF users are switching to it because FF3.5 is VERY slow and doesn't supports HTML5 too well.
Chrome and Opera, even on their user friendly builds, are very standard compliants and very fast on HTML5... that's why most of their users don't feel the need to use their betas (which in chrome isn't needed unless you're a real developer trying to help standards development).
ikeasangriaNov 1st 2010 10:13AM
Haven't you heard, using a new version of a browser is all the rage...
JohnVillarNov 1st 2010 10:54AM
Roflol.... yikes!!! didn't know it (runs to install IE9, FF4.6b, Canary and Opera 11 Beta)
PrhimeNov 1st 2010 11:03AM
still can't get it to load on my machine (win7 64-bit). once installed it crashes when i try to start the browser..so i'm waiting for a fix
Sebastian AnthonyNov 1st 2010 5:15PM
See the comment below, from a member of the IE team!
Cassandra_IE_TeamNov 1st 2010 5:13PM
@Prhime - Sorry to hear this! Take a look at this resource from Microsoft to help troubleshoot IE9 beta installation problems - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2409098
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
Cassandra
IE Outreach Team
Sebastian AnthonyNov 1st 2010 5:15PM
Hullo, Cassandra!