The latest Net Applications statistics show that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 website browser has grown to reach 31% (+.94% growth) of the worldwide web browsing market (combined result of various different IE8 editions). Major competitors Google Chrome grew just +0.32% across all OS's and Mozilla Firefox fell slightly by -0.24%.

Top 20 Website Browser Clients and Editions (Market Share)
1. Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 (27.55%)
2. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 (18.74%)
3. Firefox 3.6 (15.82%)
4. Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 (13.19%)
5. Chrome 4.1 (5.74%)
6. Firefox 3.5 (5.11%)
7. Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 - Compatibility Mode (3.64%)
8. Firefox 3.0 (2.55%)
9. Opera 10.x (1.98%)
10. Chrome 5.0 (0.96%)
11. Opera 9.x (0.52%)
12. Firefox 2.0 (0.48%)

Apple's Safari 4 browser doesn't even figure into the results until 17th position where it gets a meagre share of just 0.32%. For our part we think that Chrome is the fastest website browser and it's a shame to see IE6, with its slow speed, poor rendering performance, weak security and failure to follow standards, continuing to hold such a huge chunk of the market.