{"id":201492,"date":"2017-03-06T08:34:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T06:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=201492"},"modified":"2017-03-06T08:36:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T06:36:17","slug":"chrome-is-killing-internet-explorer-and-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/201492-chrome-is-killing-internet-explorer-and-safari.html","title":{"rendered":"Chrome is killing Internet Explorer and Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netmarketshare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The latest NetMarketShare statistics<\/strong><\/a> show that Chrome continues to win desktop market share from Microsoft\u2019s Internet Explorer and Apple\u2019s Safari.<\/p>\n<p>According to the February 2017 statistics, Chrome is currently used by 58.53% of Internet users &#8211; up from 41.71% in April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Internet Explorer is on 19.17% and Firefox on 11.68%.<\/p>\n<p>While Chrome was the biggest winner over the past year, the biggest losers were Internet Explorer and Safari.<\/p>\n<p>Internet Explorer\u2019s market share dropped from 36.61% in April 2016 to the current 19.17%, while Safari\u2019s declined from 4.47% to 3.45%.<\/p>\n<p>The graph below shows how the market share of popular browsers has changed over the past year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Browser-market-share.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-201498\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Browser-market-share.jpg\" alt=\"Browser market share\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Browser-market-share.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Browser-market-share-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/198390-google-chrome-is-king-but-internet-explorer-is-not-dead-yet.html\">Google Chrome is king, but Internet Explorer is not dead yet<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrome continues to win market share from Microsoft\u2019s Internet Explorer and Apple\u2019s Safari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1567,981,983,985],"class_list":["post-201492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chrome","tag-firefox","tag-internet-explorer","tag-safari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201492"}],"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=201492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201512,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201492\/revisions\/201512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}