According to new figures from NetMarketShare, the antiquated Internet Explorer 6 browser has finally fallen under 15 percent market share, globally, for the first time since its launch in 2001.

The browser has fallen to 13.72 percent, with most of that figure coming from China, where half of Internet users still use the "legacy" browser.

Outside of China, the share has fallen to 7.62 percent.

The market share leader remains Internet Explorer 8, at 32.79 percent, with Firefox 3.6 in second at 18.17 percent.

Behind IE6 is IE7 at 9.53 percent, followed by Chrome, which continues to see extremely strong growth whilst moving to 8.02 percent.

Other browsers, including IE9, Opera, Safari 5 and Firefox 3.5 hold the remaining 16.94 percent.

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