Chrome to Finally Pull Ahead of Firefox in November
Google Chrome goes number two.
Market share data released by StatCounter indicate that Chrome this month will pass Firefox in market share for the first time.
During the first half of this month, Chrome closely matched Firefox's market share with 25.45 percent versus 25.47 percent. In this period, Chrome gained 0.46 points over the October period, while Firefox lost 0.92 points. IE gained 0.48, most likely because of a recently launched advertising campaign.

Firefox has been caught in a downward spiral for some time now and Mozilla will have to get much more aggressive about addressing this trend. Over the past six months, Firefox lost 13.04 percent of its market share (IE: -7.29 percent; Chrome: +31.46 percent) and Firefox is, for the first time, losing market share faster than IE does (-3.82 points over the past six months versus -3.20 points).
It will be critical for Mozilla to deliver key features to Firefox without hiccups if it wants to reverse the current trend. Among those features are silent updates, which were originally planned to arrive with version 10, but may be delayed until version 11. Also Mozilla needs to integrate Chrome history and bookmark migration features rather sooner than later - right now, it appears that those may not arrive until version 11 or 12.
Given the fact that feature and strategy changes in browsers usually take half a year to show impact on market shares, Mozilla could be in for a rough ride and a turnaround may not not happen until Q2 or Q3 of next year.


I mainly use Chrome unless I'm having a problem with a particular site, which I usually assume is optimized for IE, so I use IE 9 as a backup.
I also have Firefox, but it got annoying keeping up with all of the updates breaking my plugins constantly, so I don't use it as much anymore.
c'mon firefox! don't lose market share anymore!
I mainly use Chrome unless I'm having a problem with a particular site, which I usually assume is optimized for IE, so I use IE 9 as a backup.
I also have Firefox, but it got annoying keeping up with all of the updates breaking my plugins constantly, so I don't use it as much anymore.
It will take a long time to knock IE off their top spot - majority of businesses still use IE and they aren't in a hurry to change.
I always hear people talking about memory issues or slow loads or what have you. I must be the most corner case there is, because sunspider in firefox 11 is about 15% faster than the current release chrome to me, with 20 tabs I have a 550 mb footprint, and even running the nightly it crashes once a month. So I've just been on the FF wagon since 2000 and have had no reason to get off.
Opera FTW!
1. Nightly (64-bit)
2. Google Chrome
3. Opera
4. Internet Explorer (32-bit)
5. Internet Explorer (64-bit) - I don't bother with this version because I figure it's pointless, mainly because if it doesn't work in Nightly, it's because of the lack of availability of a certain plug-in.
On a related note, I wish Google and Mozilla would release stable 64-bit versions of their browsers. We kind of needed this, like yesterday (to say the least). Can you even GET a computer with 3 GB or less of RAM anymore? Thus pushing the RAM to 4 GB and higher and not having a need for a 32-bit OS.
I'm still using IE for my development work.
When I browse Chinese web sites, I will use Maxthon, it's actually very good.
I'm interested to try opera though