According to the published by web metrics company NetApplications.com, Google Chrome managed to gain market share both from Internet Explorer and Firefox.
The superfast browser from Google has a market share of 5.20% as of January, 2010 overtaking Safari (4.51%) and Opera(2.38%).Remember Chrome has a share of just 1.62% in March 2009.
The following table shows the comparison of market shares of different browsers as of March 2009 and January 2010.
| Month | IE | Firefox | Chrome | Safari | Opera | Opera Mini | Others |
| March 2009 | 68.46% | 23.30% | 1.62% | 3.63% | 2.12% | 0.23% | 0.65% |
| January 2010 | 62.18% | 24.41% | 5.20% | 4.51% | 2.38% | 0.59% | 0.72% |
The worst affected being the IE, which lost almost 6% of market share since March 2009 to 62.18% in January 2010, whereas Firefox ended up at 24.41% even though Firefox lost its share slightly by 0.2% as compared to 24.61% in December 2009.
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