StatCounter showed IE reversing many months of declines in browser usage in August.

StatCounter and Net Applications disagree about the best way to measure browser usage, but for August, they agreed on one thing: Microsoft's Internet Explorer had something of a resurgence.

The two firms use different methodology to measure browser usage -- for example, StatCounter measures all page views to its network of Web sites while Net Applications only counts one per day to try to measure users more than usage. As a result, StatCounter names Google's five-year-old Chrome as the top browser, but Net Applications gives the honor to IE.

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For August, though, IE looked better off in both companies... [Read more]