Chrome Rallies With New Market Share High

Google’s Chrome web browser has rallied after a decline in July with a new market share high of 7.5 percent, according to the latest stats from Net Applications.

Microsoft Internet Explorer continued to pace the market with a 60.4 percent share, down from 60.7 percent in July.

Mozilla Firefox matched its July share with 22.9 percent, while Apple Safari crept up to 5.1 percent from 5 percent the prior month.

With the 7.5 percent share, Chrome boasted the biggest gain after slipping to 7.1 percent in July, down from 7.2 percent in June.

Key Role For Chrome

That’s good news for a web browser that is turning two years old tomorrow and whose innovation pace Google is looking to pick up by accelerating times between builds.

Google early last month launched Chrome 6 to beta with autofill functionality and other features, some of them cosmetic.

The company is prepping the browser as the key portal point for netbooks based on Google’s Chrome Operating System.

Chrome OS is a web operating system geared to accelerate the boot process in computers. Users will access web apps through the Chrome web browser on Chrome OS machines, which will be absent local storage.

Chrome Netbooks

Chrome OS netbooks are slated to hit retail shelves in the next couple of months to hit the holiday sales cycle.

It’s also possible Chrome OS tablets are in the works after Apple successfully launched that form factor into the public eye with the iPad.