Internet resources: Market shares of browsers in September 2011

The Net Applications Company summed up the September study of world browsers market.

Internet Explorer, although it remains the most popular Web browser, continues to "lose ground": within the last month, its share fell from 55.3 to 54.39%, while in September of 2010, IE held 61.5% of the market.

The second place belongs to Firefox with a share of 22.48%. A year ago the figure was 23.7%.

Chrome closes the top three with 16.2%. During the year the Web browser of Google doubled its share; analysts believe that by 2012 the browser may take up to 20% of the market.

Next come the Apple Safari and Opera with a score of 5.02 and 1.67% respectively. In September 2010, the proportion of those browsers was equal to 3.9 and 2.4%.