According to the data from the Net Applications regarding to browser market share in August, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 holds its leadership, advancing all its rivals in growth. 

However, elder Internet Explorer 6, an outdated and insecure browser, refuses to die down, though it’s losing ground violently.

Combining all variations of Internet Explorer 8, the flagship Microsoft browser grabs over 32% of the worldwide browser market share that’s nearly double the second place browser. Firefox has bumped IE6 to take the number two spot.

However, IE6 market share’s declining that Firefox’s winning market share. Firefox market share was relatively stagnant, but it managed to scratch its way to the number two position thanks to Internet Explorer 6 falling nearly 1%.

With the gains made by Internet Explorer 8 offset by the losses of Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer was down slightly, but still has almost two-thirds of the overall browser market at 60.4%. Firefox is in second place with 22.93%, and Chrome slides in at third place with a meager 7.52%.

Internet Explorer 8 Chrome had reflected more significant gains than Firefox did.  IE8 went up a little over a third of a percent, while Firefox was essentially stagnant with a trivial gain of only two hundredths of a percent over the previous month.

Importantly, Microsoft unveiled its plans to launch the next generation browser Internet Explorer 9, based on the excitement the platform previews have generated and the preliminary reviews. The company hopes the new version to be as successful as IE8, making it even more difficult for competing browsers like Firefox and Chrome to gain any significant ground.