• eWeek, Monday, August 2, 2010 2:19 PM

Sorry Firefox, but Internet Explorer is making a comeback. The Microsoft Web browser grew its market-share in July, while rivals lost ground incrementally. Net Applications has estimated Internet Explorer's July market-share at 60.74% -- an increase from June's 60.32%, followed by Firefox with 22.91%, Chrome with 7.16%, Safari with 5.09%, and Opera with 2.45%. Chrome dropped 0.08% from June, after months of quality gains, while Firefox declined 0.9%.

"But Microsoft is also facing questions about Internet Explorer's priorities with regard to privacy," notes eWeek. "A widely circulated Aug. 1 article in The Wall Street Journal suggests that the Internet Explorer team's decision to 'design ... software to automatically thwart common tracking tools' was fiercely resisted by company executives who thought those tools would impede their online-ad selling operation."

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