Google Chrome took 20 per cent of the global web browser market in June 2011, according to figures from StatCounter.
These stats measure actual usage and not just the number of downloads for each browser, making Chrome's leap from under three per cent two years ago, to 20 per cent today all the more impressive.
Meanwhile, Microsoft's Internet Explorer usage dropped from 53 to 44 per cent between June 2010 and June 2011.
Red Panda population decline
Also dipping is the ever-popular Firefox, which dropped from 31 to 28 per cent over the course of the year – a fairly moderate decline, all things considered.
Safari and Opera have both stayed pretty steady at around 5 per cent and 1 per cent respectively.
In the UK, Chrome and Firefox are proving equally popular with 21 per cent of the market, both unable to catch up to IE's 46 per cent share.
From StatCounter via The Next Web
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parasitius
July 4th 2011
3. The last two releases of FF have been awful and I would have switched to Chrome already if not for the fact I have several add ons in FF that I can't currently do without.
Mozilla need to get their act together and quick or they'll find Google snaffling more of their market share.
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ilesal
July 1st 2011
2. Now if I could have my bookmark pane on the left like in FF I would switch. Simple but not possible. I have hundreds of websites in separate categorised folders and this is not good for toolbar I need a left pane.
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tentimes
July 1st 2011
1. I suspect part of this is the way chrome spans across multiple computers totally seamlessly. That's why I dropped firefox, the procedures for syncing browsers was just to cumbersome and didn't work well.
People now want things to be smooth across devices and machines, they want "connected". Google does that well.
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