Google Chrome Reaches 20.7% Browser Market Share Worldwide, Just Behind Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox has struggled for years to overcome Microsoft’s Internet Explorer on the web browser’s market, but it seems like Google will eventually manage to achieve this goal although it was launched less than three years ago. According to the latest report, the Google Chrome browser now has a market share of 20.7% worldwide.
Two years ago the Google Chrome web browser had a very small market share circling around 3%, but its simplicity, clean user interface, speed, and the addition offeatures in a constant manner has propelled the browser on the third spot behind Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
As of June 2011 Chrome’s share stands at 20.7%, Firefox’ share is 28%, while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is still the leader of the pack with a combined share of 44%. IE has taken a huge drop from 59 percent to 44 percent, whereas Firefox’ drop has been smaller to 28 percent from 30 percent.
If things follow the course of the nature, then by the end of 2011 Google Chrome will become the second most popular browser in the world ahead of Firefox, and within a year it will become number one. There are lots of countries across the globe where Google Chrome is ahead of Mozilla Firefox and the bad thing about its competitors, is that the browser’s growth doesn’t appear to stop, it’s actually accelerating.
Please note that these are not official numbers from Google, they come from StatCounter, probably the most popular internet-related statistics company and one of the most reliable sources when it comes to web stats.
Google Chrome has been my default web browser both at work and at home on Linux and Windows computers since it became available. Once you use Chrome you can’t go back to using other web browsers. One of the main hindrances to Chrome’s growth was the lack of add-ons, but Google launched Extensions a while back and their complaints are now gone.
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