Internet Explorer 8 Takes the Top Spot… Or Does It?
Feb 1st, 2010
Internet Explorer 8 has regained the top spot in the never-ending browser battle today, or so says the Guardian , citing statistics from Net Applications . According to the statistics, IE 8 has taken a 5% lead over Firefox 3.5, but this is not only unsurprising, but likely temporary. We also have some numbers from StatCounter that show the race to be much closer than Net Applications would have you believe. Sponsor According to the Guardian article, “the decade-old IE6 had a transitory spot at the top of the chart because of IE7 users switching to IE8,” but now IE8 has finally taken the lead from IE 6 because of the decline of Windows XP.

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