New figures for browser share show that Google's Chrome browser has overtaken Apple's Safari for the first time.
Web metric company Net Applications' figures for December showed that Google ended 2009 with its highest ever share.
4.63 per cent of all users now use Chrome - a scant fifth of a percentage point above Safari's 4.46 per cent share.
Big but shrinking
The numbers are dwarfed by Internet Explorer's dominant 62.69 per cent market share - but Microsoft should be anything but complacent. IE's share has dropped by nearly a full percentage point in each of the last six months, and Net Applications estimates that it might tumble to as low as 50 per cent by the middle of 2010.
Firefox's advances against IE have slowed, with the open source browser actually a dropping a tenth of point to settle in at 24.6 per cent - falling tantalisingly short of accounting for a quarter of all surfers for another month
Opera and Opera Mini account for a shade under 3 per cent of users, with the fractions made up by people using Playstations, BlackBerrys and other mobile devices.
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stu531
January 3rd 2010
1. I think Chrome is great. I used IE for years, gave Chrome a try, and never looked back since. It give a good, clear, uncluttered interface for users; it's pretty customisable (I use the bookmarks bar with only the website icons - again, clear) and leaves the real estate of the screen to the website.
And of course, it's fast. Very fast.
Out of all the browsers, I think this one deserves to challenge MS IE the most.
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