Friday, December 2nd 2011
Google Chrome Overtakes Mozilla Firefox in Browser Market-share: StatCounter
According to the latest data sourced by StatCounter for the month of November 2011, Google Chrome has overtaken Mozilla Firefox in terms of web-browser software market-share. The GlobalStats data provides a worldwide picture, and not just specific to a region. According to the data, 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%. Google Chrome began in mid-2008 as an experimental minimalist UI web-browser based on the Chromium project, it is a multi-process tabbed web browser based on Apple Webkit and several other pieces of free, licensed, and open-source technologies. Its market share is on the rise. The stats can be accessed here.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer still maintains a strong lead globally with 40.63%. Google Chrome began in mid-2008 as an experimental minimalist UI web-browser based on the Chromium project, it is a multi-process tabbed web browser based on Apple Webkit and several other pieces of free, licensed, and open-source technologies. Its market share is on the rise. The stats can be accessed here.
101 Comments on Google Chrome Overtakes Mozilla Firefox in Browser Market-share: StatCounter
But I don't know why really, I'm just not a big fan of having a process per tab. I've tried Chrome, Opera and IE9 at times, but FF feels like home, probably because I've used it since it came out. If I would use something else it would probably be IE9 though, I like that.
I mean yes it hangs when I'm starting a new download (and haven't downloaded anything in a while) for a minute, but still..
Something tells me browsing with a publicity company's browser must suck and is anti-cool.
www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
I like how Google and I think IE9 let you use the GPU for processing and take advantage of multi cores. I think Firefox does this too but I Cannot remember. Only thing I Want from Firefox is a smaller footprint and to fix, once and for all, their memory leak usage. I use all three browsers and love them all. Just like Firefox for more extensions but I do love Google Chrome Apps!
With I infront of it......mabybe that's why I don't mess with apple. Remember the old old old internet explorer... the horror I had with. Hearing a lot of good things about 9 though.
To calculate which browser to use today, I have to use a lot of spreadsheets, complex math equations and a ton of scientific and astronomy data like the phase of the moon and the number of sun spots and the average water displaced during yesterday's tides.
The sad part is that to do all these calculations, I need approximately 15 hours and 45 minutes and I'm left with only 15 minutes of actual browsing time left :(
These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is a more popular browser."
I use Firefox as a second browser but i use Mozilla's Seamonkey as primary as it soots my needs and requirements better. And if i remember right they both use the same engine too.
Like HalfaHertz says: all these browser-geek-wars steal my time and that is also my money.
i wouldn't even consider using IE as my main browser. for one thing because it consistently displays sites differently than every other browser. but from a user's perspective it just doesn't have the customization i need. with 12 or more hours a day every small change helps productivity, which means i'm done sooner ;)