Google's Chrome <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/chrome-gains-market-share-ie-drops-nearly-2-p">has narrowly overtaken Mozilla's Firefox</a> as the second most popular desktop browser behind <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a>'s Internet Explorer, which is holding onto its market-leading share of the market, according to one Web analytics firm.
All eyes are on <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/050410-5-reasons-why-google-chrome.html">Google's Chrome</a> browser as it battles Mozilla's Firefox in a tight fight for the No. 2 position behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which is holding onto its market-leading share of the desktop browser market.
I got a guided tour of Microsoft's new IE9 browser here at SWSW, and saw several features that I believe raise the bar for web browsers.
Speed is supposed to be a hallmark of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9, but the head of a Web optimization firm says improvements are negligible on the most popular Websites.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has dominated the Web browser market since blowing by Netscape in the late 1990s, last month fell below the 50 per cent market share level for the first time in years.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 officially launched late Monday and is ready for download here.