Chrome Overtakes Firefox Globally for First Time

[kash]

Chrome Overtakes Firefox Globally for First Time

Boston, USA; Dublin, Ireland; Thursday, 1st December, 2011: Google's browser Chrome overtook Firefox for the first time globally on a monthly basis in November, according to StatCounter, the free website analytics company. The firm's research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that Chrome took 25.69% of the worldwide market (up from 4.66% in November 2009) compared to Firefox's 25.23%. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still maintains a strong lead globally with 40.63%.

"We can look forward to a fascinating battle between Microsoft and Google as the pace of growth of Chrome suggests that it will become a real rival to Internet Explorer globally," commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. "Our stats measure actual browser usage, not downloads, so while Chrome has been highly effective in ensuring downloads our stats show that people are actually using it to access the web also."

In the US Internet Explorer continues to perform strongly and is maintaining market share at 50.66%, up slightly from 50.24% year on year. Firefox retains second place on 20.09%, down from 26.75%. Chrome is up to 17.3% from 10.89%. Safari is on 10.76% from 10.71%.

In the UK, Internet Explorer also leads the market with 42.82%. Chrome is on 24.82%, having overtaken Firefox (20.56%) in July. (For other individual country or regional analysis see StatCounter Global Stats).

StatCounter Global Stats are based on aggregate data collected on a sample exceeding 15 billion page views per month (4 billion from the US) from the StatCounter network of more than three million websites.

As well as free web research, StatCounter (http://statcounter.com/) provides free website traffic analysis. This allows website owners, developers and bloggers to capture valuable intelligence on their site in real time including number of visitors, visitors by country/region, search terms, popular pages, download stats, exit links and other data.
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[FunkY]

Somehow i'm not surprised at all
Thanks for the news kash

[Kees]

I am a happy Opera user and will stick to that.

[safeguy]

Sarcasm mode ON:

User/Client: I don't know how "it" got there.
Admin (on the phone): What? I've told you so many times not to just click on "Accept"/"Next"/"Ok" blindly...duh.
Admin sigh...
Admin knows that he needs to visit and check IE for sign of toolbar (erm, "Ask toolbar again"??)
Admin visit user/client.
Admin launch IE. Wait...it's not there. What is it?
User/client pin-point what's the "it" he/she was referring to..
Admin smiles. Of course, he knows what that is...it's the new kid in town...

Sarcasm mode OFF:
Firefox still remains as my default browser.

[JayCub]

The part i liked about chrome was it did a great and clean uninstall, way too bloated for my liking, i like fire fox but im tired of the many updates as mentioned in different threads here.

[Bearcat]

I made the switch from Firefox to Maxthon a couple months ago and haven't regretted my decision at all.

[jj1two3]

I have used them all and I have to say that Maxthon is a great browser. I agree with Bearcat on that one.

[hellnoire]

Yeah, this was already posted guys. Let's stick to one topic per thread?