The number of Internet Explorer users is declining for months already and research company StatCounter claims that Firefox now holds a larger market share. The numbers of StatCounter show that Microsoft's Internet Explorer had a market share of 17.1% in September which is slightly below the 17.3% market share of Mozilla's Firefox.
Google's Chrome is by far the market leader with a market share of 56.6%. The default browser in Windows 10, Edge doesn't appear in the statistics of StatCounter.
Besides StatCounter also Net Applications reports browser usage statistics every month. The numbers differ a lot from StatCounter, Net Applications reports that Internet Explorer holds the largest market share with 51.6%. However also their numbers show that Internet Explorer is losing popularity month by month. In December 2014 Microsoft's browser still accounted for 59.1% of the market.
Net Applications also reports that Chrome continues to grow, the numbers show that the market share of Google's browser is increasing for 11 months already and currently holds a market share of 29.9%. Firefox on the hand lost some users in September, according to Net Applications and is now installed on 11.5% of the computers measured by the research company.
