As Firefox popularity grew and frustrations over Internet Explorer intensified, Google entered the market in 2008 with its own Chrome browser. Google focused on web standards and respected HTML5 ...

Over the weekend, Google Chrome routed more Internet traffic than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which long has held its spot as the most-used Web browser in the world, according to data from ...

Combined, Internet Explorer still leads with a 38.5% share of the global browser market. Google's Chrome is second and Mozilla's Firefox is in third place, a percentage point behind Chrome.

But Google Chrome is one of the fastest browsers on the market. In fact, a quick comparison in load times between Chrome 9 and Internet Explorer 8 in my testing reveals that the former ...

Now that users have the option of picking the browser they want to use, it’s highly unlikely that the average user will pick any other browser besides Internet Explorer or Google Chrome.

Microsoft, which includes Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system, used to have a lock on the browser market. Google didn’t even enter the market until 2008. But Chrome recently ...

and early stage browser plug-in that actually puts the speedy Webkit-based rendering engine and fast JavaScript engine from Google Chrome inside Internet Explorer. Although the initial release is ...

In the meantime, Google has been regularly updating and improving the Chrome experience, perhaps most notably with its Material Design visual makeover. Internet Explorer has been the reviled king ...

Ah, the humble internet browser. So crucial to our experience of the internet, yet so easy to take for granted. Let's be real, how many of us really think about our choice of web browser these days?

Chrome's market share skyrocketed year-over-year as Internet Explorer's plummeted. The Chromium project is also maintained by Google, and Chrome is simply the bespoke, proprietary version of Chromium.

For those who weren't there, we've put together a brief history of the life and times of Internet Explorer. IE's heyday is a distant memory, but the entire story is worth knowing. Google Chrome is ...