Chrome Climbed Above Firefox in Market Share Ranking
StatCounter data suggests that, on a global basis, the number of people using Chrome exceeded those who were using Firefox last Sunday. Chrome beat Firefox with a market share of 26.22% versus 26.16%. It's not much and it was just one day, but it is a significant event as Chrome has caught up with Firefox on weekend days.
Chrome has substantially higher market share on weekends than during the week and the current data implies that the browser needs about four to six weeks to catch up with any number on a weekend on an average market share basis. If this trend holds up, then we should be seeing Chrome match average Firefox market share by mid- to end-November.
For the first half of the month, Chrome averaged 24.85%, which is more than 1.2 points up from last month, while Firefox is slightly down to 26.68%. IE has fallen for the first half of the month below the 40% mark and was estimated at 39.99%.
Chrome market share is, just as it is the case with all other browsers significantly fragmented across the world. In North America, for example, Chrome share is only 20.01%, while it is at 40.82% in South America, according to StatCounter.
Apparently selling your data makes your browser go faster.
Apparently selling your data makes your browser go faster.
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got the point
??? Just install it from the Chrome site like you do with Firefox from their site. It sped up my Chrom even faster than before. Speed is the whole reason I switched from Firefox. Firefox is just too dog gone slow.
Some might say that Google doing it with Chrome is an unfair monopoly, seeing as they get free advertising in the browser choice screen of Windows.
Antitrust lawsuit in 3...2...1...
Well, since every laptop manufacturer advertises Windows 7, it's still balanced
You don't need Javascript to determine what browser someone is using.
Yep. Stick it on the Google home page and put up giant billboards at train stations and people will eventually notice it.
Yea... no. Most people wouldn't even know what that is.
It doesn't work nearly as well. It doesn't even block AdWords properly. I nearly get motion sickness from pages that mutate after loading when using Chrome with ad blockers.
Chrome AdBlock doesn't block everything that Firefox AdBlock will, Chrome version will miss things that Firefox will catch. I believe it has something to do with how Chrome is made, the extensions don't have full access to what is needed to make full use of AdBlock. For me the speed difference between Chrome and Firefox on my machine is small and the big difference between the AdBlocks and the other Add Ons I can't find version of in Chrome make Firefox the browser I use.
I don't get why some people have problems with it. Works perfectly for me.
I think you were too quick in your article conclusions and you never noticed that there were no stats for Firefox 6 and Firefox 7, which are the current and the previous browser versions. So these data you based your article are simply incomplete and unreliable as these versions are out there since August 16th, 2011.
Please check the actual .csv data taken from the StatsCounter Web site (http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201009-201109), option Browser version for confirmation.
Actually I suspect the Firefox 6 and 7 usage data are hidden within the Others label so either its market share is stable or growing.