War Between Browsers:Google Chrome Overtakes Apple’s Safari

Google’s Chrome browser overtook Apple’s Safari in the final month of 2009 to become the 3rd place browser behind Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Our first set of stats covered the week of Dec. 6-12, during which Google launched Chrome for Mac — a rush of downloads was to be expected. Now web metrics provider Net Applications has released its full month of December stats, confirming that Chrome  had 4.63% of the browser market that month, versus 4.46% for Apple’s Safari.

The Net Applications stats aren’t all bad for Apple: the iPhone saw its biggest jump in the mobile operating system market in December, climbing 20% over its November numbers to 0.43% of the market. On the desktop, Apple’s growth is slow, however: OS X usage grew to 5.11% of the OS market at the end of 2009 from 4.71% at the start.

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Source: Mashable.com