Chrome user share swells to record 31 percent

From InfoWorld: Chrome last month reached another major milestone in user share as Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox again shed fans at ruinous rates.

Meanwhile, use of Microsoft's Edge, the intended replacement for IE, continued to sink among those running Windows 10.

The latest data published Sunday by California-based Net Applications portrayed the browser battle in October as another victory for Google and its Chrome, and signaled that the looming deadline facing almost half of all IE users has not been taken seriously.

Chrome cracked the 30 percent bar in October, Net Applications said, with its user share -- the portion of the world's personal computer users who run a specific browser, and so a proxy for market share -- climbing by 1.3 percentage points, averaging 31.1 percent for the month.

That was a record for Chrome, which debuted seven years ago. In the past 12 months, Chrome has boosted its user share by 9.9 percentage points, representing a one-year growth rate of 46 percent.

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