Chrome Now at 25% Market Share, IE Down to 40%
Chrome's October market share result is just shy of having met the 25 percent milestone in what appears to be an accelerating pace of growth.
According to StatCounter, Chrome finished October with 24.99 percent share, behind Firefox with 26.39 percent and IE with 40.19 percent. During the month, IE lost 1.47 points, Firefox lost 0.4 points and Chrome gained 1.38 points. Apple's Safari climbed by 0.33 points to 5.93 percent share.
While some predicted that Chrome's growth will be flattening at some point, they are still accelerating at this time. The browser gained 10.1 points of share in this year alone and has just posted the strongest 6-month gain in its short history (6.7 points). At the current speed, Chrome will be surpassing Firefox market share on an average basis sometime this month and catch up with IE by mid-2012. For the past week, Chrome's market share averaged 25.43 percent, behind Firefox with 26.03 percent, according to StatCounter.
Microsoft isn't seeing this development quite as dramatic, at least not publicly. The company only quotes Net Applications data and only IE9 market share on Windows 7. According to Microsoft, IE9 now has about 22 percent share on Windows 7 systems globally, just ahead of Chrome and just behind Firefox. Microsoft's interests in browser share appear to be very different from Google's interest. While Microsoft is trying to claim the browser crown on Windows 7 with IE9 to prepare for a successful launch of the HTML5 application model for Windows 8, Google is aiming to gain overall market share to support its core revenues that are still created through its search engine.

Lol....
He's talking out his ass
I didn't think that IE9 would run on XP...how'd you make that happen?
I think all this suggest is that Chrome advertising is working well.
Whereas Firefox tended to be spread by recommendation and quality.
Lol....
Firefox lost 0.4 points... yeah those numbers are pretty silly. I wonder if Apple really gives a shit that their browser isn't climbing in numbers?
I'm guessing this does not put into account for mobile browsers since there are TONS of iDevices using Safari but only seen 0.33 point growth with sitting at just under 6% share...
do we have usage data for mobile browsers yet?
Then they click the links on their desktop saying e-mail, yahoo, google, work, &c. Chrome opens up and they start using the new browser. Many not even realizing they switched browsers or what a browser actually is. Just that they click this icon on their desktop that the nice guy from their ISP put their that goes directly to their e-mail.
While Firefox users had to actually want a new browser. Search for it then install it.
I'm not saying all Chrome users don't know what they are doing. Just that this scenario seems likely. Given how it is largely displacing IE users. With just a very small drift of Firefox users.
I didn't think that IE9 would run on XP...how'd you make that happen?
He's talking out his ass
Speed is everything to me. I could care less about plugins or anything else. Just give me a fast browser that renders all sites well and doesn't crash.
I know you can adjust the .exe shortcut with a command, but still sucks, cause when i click on the Gmail Counter Gadger for example, that command isn't valid.
This for me it's a big enough reason to prefer Firefox.