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"Google Chrome has been long expected to overtake Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) to nab its position as the Web's most used browser and, according to data from Statcounter, the\u00A0momentous\u00A0change of leadership happened last week.\r\n\r\nThe firm's latest figures -- spotted by Global Nerdy blogger\u00A0Joey deVilla\u00A0-- show that Chrome's line of usage creeped to overtake IE's for the first week ever, with Firefox, Safari and Opera completing the top five respectively.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nStatcounter's findings give Google a double win, after the analytics site found that its mobile browser -- Android Robot -- had leapfrogged Opera to\u00A0become the most popular option for mobile-based Web surfers\u00A0in March.\r\n\r\nMeasuring the Web is an imprecise science, very often based on scaling up small scale measurement surveys, but the gist of Statcounter's data over the last year indicates that the use of Chrome is rising at the expense of IE and Firefox, regardless of the exact precision of the data.\r\n\r\nStatcounter first found Chrome to be ahead for just one day, back on March 18, and its breakdown of browser usage over May\u00A0to date puts Chrome and IE almost neck-and-neck at around 33 percent for the month. However, given that last week saw Chrome push ahead, May could become the first month during which the Google-owned browser has been more popular.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nGoogle Chrome has come on leaps and bounds since launching in 2008. Extensions are a key part of the browser's appeal, with the latest additions including a scheduler for Google+, a Pinterest like script\u00A0and these further 9 recommended extensions.\r\n\r\nGoogle is big on internationalising its service and Chrome is no different. For example, its My Chrome Theme social tool just became available in 36 more languages, to help increase its appeal across the planet.\r\n\r\nMicrosoft isn't taking the challenge lying down and\u00A0Statcounter recently suggested\u00A0that the latest version of IE (9) is making progress, and is seeing particularly marked usage over the weekends.\r\n\r\nRegardless of whether Chrome can maintain its momentum over the rest of May to top the month's use, Chrome is on the up and we'd expect it to reign supreme in the Web browser world sooner rather than later.\r\n\r\nUpdate: Joey deVilla's\u00A0latest post\u00A0shows that data from\u00A0W3Counter\u00A0and\u00A0Clicky\u00A0throw up different results to Statcounter.\r\n\r\nStatcounter is widely used as a standard for measuring browser usage -- by those in the industry, no less -- and, as I pointed out, it may not be 100 percent accurate but its findings reflect the overall trend that Chrome is on its way to the top, if it isn't already."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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