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  • A Third Of The World Is Now Using Google Chrome

    Google Chrome is immensely popular with its browser market share constantly rising each month. After beating out Internet Explorer back in May, it has been on a slow rise to world domination since. After a successful July, Chrome is now a third of the way toward that goal.

    The monthly StatCounter results came in today and the results aren’t that surprising. Chrome is still rising, Internet Exploer and Firefox are still trending downward. Safari and Opera remain pretty constant at the bottom of the pack.

    Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Market Share

    What’s interesting is that Chrome now owns a third of the entire global browser market. Internet Explorer still has a third as well, but that’s constantly dropping. The launch of Windows 8 may be enough to catapult Internet Explorer back up to the top, but Chrome is going to keep rising regardless. The downfall of Firefox is definitely attributing to that as the folks at Mozilla can’t seem to compete with Chrome, even with constant updates.

    As far as the country by country basis goes, Chrome and Internet Explorer are mostly neck and neck. Firefox still holds a lot of Africa and Europe, but that’s also slowly moving to Chrome. Despite Chrome’s popularity, it still has yet to become the number one browser for most of the developed world with the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, China and Japan all predominantly using Internet Explorer.

    StatCounter Global Stats
    Top Browsers Per Country from May to Jul 2012

    Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Market Share

    As we move into the launch of Windows 8, it will be interesting to see Internet Explorer is affected by that. If Microsoft has their way with Windows RT, Internet Explorer will be the only browser available on those devices. It’s also the only browser that actually works well within the Metro interface for now on Windows 8 Pro. Chrome is currently testing the waters, but it’s nowhere near as polished as Internet Explorer 10. Regardless, we’ll just have to wait and see.

  • Google Chrome Overtakes Firefox

    Google Chrome Overtakes Firefox

    Something occurred to me when reading about this subject: what does the winner of the browser wars get? Dominance over the Internet with king-of-the-hill bragging rights? Money? Women? Power? Well, actually, that third one is pretty accurate because there is a certain level of power if more people are accessing the “Information Superhighway” with your vehicle.

    And, of course, with power comes more money, and, yes, women (or men), too.

    While these studies pop up pretty much on a monthly basis, they serve as good barometer for the Internet habits of people, at least in relation to how they surf the Worldwide Web. In the latest report from StatCounter, it appears as if Firefox as fallen from grace, at least in relation to Google Chrome, because, for the first time, Chrome has overtaken Firefox in relation to the amount of users each browser has.

    StatCounter provides a chart of their findings and as you can see, Chrome’s path has been one of steady ascension, while Firefox and Internet Explorer both show a consistent decrease of users, although, with Firefox, the decrease has been at a slower rate:

    Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Market Share


    In the supporting press release, StatCounter explains their findings as follows:

    …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%.

    In fact, the reports of Internet Explorer’s demise, despite the steady decline, may have been exaggerated, especially in the United States:

    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…

    Of course, there’s still some backlash towards Microsoft’s browser, which was so eloquently captured by the Reddit community with the following gif:

    Matt and Trey

    The title of the Reddit post explains the reason for the reaction: “How I feel when I find out a friend still uses Internet Explorer.” Based on StatCounter’s findings, however, a lot of people apparently deserve that response because Internet Explorer is still strong, especially with the United States crowd.

    That being said, Google Chrome still poses a legitimate threat to Internet Explorer’s dominance, something StatCounter believes as well:

    “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.”

    Does this mean Firefox is the odd man out in relation to being the browser of choice? What browser are you loyal to? Are you still an Internet Explorer user or have you moved on to one of the alternatives? Let us know what you think.