{"id":163665,"date":"2016-05-03T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T10:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=163665"},"modified":"2016-05-03T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T10:25:12","slug":"internet-explorer-is-no-longer-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/163665-internet-explorer-is-no-longer-king.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer is no longer king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome has beaten Internet Explorer to claim top spot in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netmarketshare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NetMarketShare&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> Internet browser popularity rankings for April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome earned\u00a041.71% of the desktop browser share for the past month, followed by Internet Explorer on 41.33%.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox came in third with 10.06%, followed by Safari on 4.47% and Opera on 2.01%.<\/p>\n<p>NetMarketShare&#8217;s data showed that Chrome has grown its user base since the beginning of 2016, moving up from 35.05% of international browser market share to its April figure of\u00a041.71%.<\/p>\n<p>Internet Explorer showed a decline during the same period, dropping from 46.90% to 41.33% since January.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_163667\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Internet-browser-market-share.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163667\" class=\"wp-image-163667 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Internet-browser-market-share-640x231.jpg\" alt=\"Internet browser market share\" width=\"640\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Internet-browser-market-share-640x231.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Internet-browser-market-share-768x277.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Internet-browser-market-share.jpg 1582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-163667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on browsers<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/162726-unlimited-free-vpn-built-into-the-opera-browser.html\">Unlimited free VPN built into the Opera browser<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/161648-mybroadband-readers-most-popular-internet-browsers.html\">MyBroadband readers\u2019 most popular Internet browsers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Explorer has been dethroned from its position as the world&#8217;s most popular Internet browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":160574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[36,167,1137,983],"class_list":["post-163665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-software","tag-active","tag-google","tag-google-chrome","tag-internet-explorer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163669,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163665\/revisions\/163669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}