Website analytics service StatCounter has found that Google’s Chrome browser overtook Mozilla Firefox in terms of global usage for the first time in November, slightly edging out its rival as Internet Explorer continued to dominate.
StatCounter puts Chrome’s browser market share grew 4.66% over two years to hit 25.69%, beating Firefox’s 25.23% share to capture second place. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continued to dominate usage statistics, gaining slightly in the past couple of weeks to hold a 40.63% share.
In July, we reported Google’s Chrome browser exceeded 20% of the global Internet browser market in June for the first time, putting Firefox in its sights. At the time, Chrome held a 20.7% share of the global market in that month, which was up from a mere 2.8% in June 2009.
In the US, Firefox continues to hold second place with 20.09% share, slipping by more than 6.66%. Chrome accounts for almost all of the reduction in Firefox usage, posting growth of 6.41%. Again, Microsoft continues to enjoy the majority of users, accounting for more than half of all browser users monitored by StatCounter’s analytics service.
Google has begun marketing its Chrome browser in recent months, advertising the browser on billboards and showcasing it with other services in its TV adverts. That seems to be paying off for the search giant, as it looks to claw back more market share from Microsoft and its Internet Explorer software.
Worth noticing :People there in Antarctica prefer Firefox....That must have something to do with 'Fire' (in FireFox) and its durability !
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Likeit's been a long time coming, definitely the best browser out there especially with the whole google chrome web appstore thingy. it's bound to become the top browser.
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LikeI'd prefer some1 overtaking IE, not Chrome and FF eating each other (well a little bit for sure). I wonder if Facebook isn't worried about that...Chrome can be a big advantage for Google+
http://baretech.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/so-chrome-has-overtaken-firefox-what-does-it-mean-5-points/
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LikeThis is not very surprising. Though i have FireFox, IE and chrome installed, i mostly use chrome. Very rarely i use IE. But i think FireFox has its own reliable minimum user base and it will not come below two digit at any case.
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LikeAlready saw a Chrome billboard in January 2010...
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LikeLet's celebrate when IE isn't anymore dominating the market. We need asap a good FTP extension for Chrome, just like the FireFTP for FF and I bet many people/developer are going to migrate from FF to Chrome. The true is, Chrome is too much faster.
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LikeThis is the real take-home message:
"Again, Microsoft continues to enjoy the majority of users, accounting for more than half of all browser users monitored by StatCounter’s analytics service."
We also know from today's stats that the most popular browser on Windows 7 is now IE9.
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LikeTim Acheson Please play a bit with the StatCounter website to get this numbers:
Windows 7 global market share: ~40%
IE 9 global market share: ~ 10%
IE 9 is only available on Windwos 7
The rest is left as an exercise to the commenter....
PS: Chrome 15 is now the most used browser version of the world
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Safari pure and simple... Fuck google...
been using Chrome since last year, love it!♥ the others'r suck
I have too many problems with Chrome, and for some reason Google Reader runs like ass... a known problem for years now, and Google won't even address it, much less fix it. So I tend to browse Google Reader in Opera (the only browser that runs it smoothly) and all my other browsing is in Firefox.
Chrome
m using firefox lol... won't waste much memory like chrome
m too like chrome only :)
Used to use ff but since quite some time it's Chrome what I like the most
Chrome is excellent
I use every web browser but Chrome is the best with Firefox & sometimes IE9
I am a business researcher. I usually work on 2 or 3 projects and I used to keep 3 to 5 browsers, almost with 20 tabs in each. There is no other browser which could keep on such load. Chrome is the only browser I use. Mozilla and Safari are unusable for me, especially Mozilla
Firefox!
Safari. Nothing wrong with going stock! The update has actually made it very usable and fast!
firefox is good, but working with chrome is much faster and almoest no crashes. I actually admired firefox for firebug, but now you can have it also in chrome, so..
I use firefox, chrome and safari. All 3.
I tried Chrome and I like it. FF is better though.
Chrome FTW.!