• eWeek, Tuesday, April 6, 2010 2:38 PM

Through March, Google's Chrome Web browser captured a 6.1% share of the search market, and is on pace to surpass 10% by the end of the year, according to Net Applications. Through February, Chrome held a 5.6% market share. At the present rate, Chrome only needs to gain a percentage point of share every two months to top 10% by December.

Chrome's gains are likely coming at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which sat at 60.7% through March -- from 61.6% through February, notes eWeek. Meanwhile, Mozilla Firefox and Apple's Safari browser -- which Google surpassed last December -- both grew incrementally. Firefox held 24.5% market share through March, compared with 24.2% through February, while Safari rose from 4.5% the last period to 4.7% through March.

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