{"id":50667,"date":"2012-05-22T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T07:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=50667"},"modified":"2012-05-22T09:05:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T07:05:49","slug":"google-chrome-now-worlds-most-popular-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/50667-google-chrome-now-worlds-most-popular-browser.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome now world\u2019s most popular browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> <a title=\"Chrome\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/368084-Chrome\">Chrome<\/a> has beaten <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft\u2019s<\/a> <a title=\"Internet Explorer (IE)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/387173-Internet-Explorer\">Internet Explorer<\/a> to become the overall most popular internet web browser, according to recent <a title=\"StatCounter\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/387185-StatCounter\">StatCounter<\/a> numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome had previously topped Internet Explorer in selected world regions, and occasionally on weekends; however, it has never been able to top worldwide Internet Explorer use over a longer period of time.<\/p>\n<p>The latest StatCounter numbers show Google\u2019s browser averaging higher than Internet Explorer over a seven day period, from 14 May to 20 May.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome raked up 32.76 percent average market share over the period, marginally ahead of Microsoft\u2019s 31.94 percent. <a title=\"Mozilla Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342687-Mozilla-Foundation\">Mozilla<\/a> <a title=\"Firefox\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/220755-Firefox\">Firefox<\/a> was in third with 25.47 percent.<\/p>\n<p>However, Chrome&#8217;s overall usage did decline after 20 May, down to 31.88 percent &#8211; still marginally ahead of Internet Explorer\u2019s 31.47 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/05\/21\/google-chrome-market-share-passes-internet-explorer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrome has overtaken Internet Explorer in worldwide browser usage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":34628,"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":[17],"tags":[981,167,1137,983,123,975,3884],"class_list":["post-50667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-firefox","tag-google","tag-google-chrome","tag-internet-explorer","tag-microsoft","tag-mozilla","tag-statcounter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50667"}],"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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50669,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50667\/revisions\/50669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}