Google’s Chrome browser is picking up the pace after a slight market share growth slowdown in August. Chrome has cracked the 25% mark for the first time this weekend, according to StatCounter. Firefox share is declining five times faster than IE share.
Chrome climbed above the 25% market share mark for the first time, scoring 25.02% on Sunday, according to data released by StatCounter. The average for the first 12 days of the month is 23.72%, up from 23.16% in August, which indicates that Chrome should be ending up at about 24.3% by the end of this month, if Google can continue its growth.
It appears that Chrome is gaining more market share from Mozilla than Microsoft as Firefox is dropping faster than Microsoft’s browser at this time. The average for this month is 26.98%, down from 27.49% in August. The current trend reaffirms our previous forecast that Chrome may be surpassing Firefox market share as early as October, but is very likely to climb past Mozilla by November in the 25.5% – 26% market share range.
Besides closing in on Firefox, Google is nearing yet another milestone as it is within sight of Microsoft’s IE8 and Chrome 14 could become the most popular single browser version within two months as well. IE8′s shares currently shift from about 26% to about 24%, depending on the day of the week, while Chrome 13 has about 21% to 22.5%.
Firefox 6, introduced almost one month ago, is still suffering from a slower adoption pace that the rapid release model would require. Only 14.5% of web users, or 54% of Firefox users have upgraded to the new version. StatCounter data suggests that only about one third of Firefox users are updating to a new browser version immediately, while the remaining two thirds is a rather long tail. In comparison, Chrome (automatically) upgraded 80% of Chrome 12 users to version 13 within one week of the browser’s release.
Daniel Bailey in Products on September 12
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