• PCWorld, Tuesday, May 4, 2010 2:24 PM

Last month, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser market share dipped below 60% -- a historic all-time-low -- according the new data from NetApplications. Showing a steep decline, IE had a intimidating 80% market share less than two years ago. Since then, the continued growth of alternative browsers from Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome has put IE on the defensive. According to NetApplications statistics, Mozilla's Firefox browser now has nearly 25% market share, a position that is has held for the last two months. As such, Firefox still represents the largest threat to Internet Explorer's dominance.

Meanwhile, Google's Chrome now commands a 6.7% share of the market, while Apple's Safari represents 4.7% of the market. At least according to PCWorld, "Chrome's surge in use is impressive, considering it had zero percent share prior to 2009." Opera, which has been recently in the news with its new Opera Mini browser for iPhone, still only makes up 2.3% of the market, according to NetApplications.

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