Chrome 15 puts IE8 in rear-view mirror, takes No. 1 spot

[Jack]

Google's Chrome 15 has jumped into the number one spot, replacing Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) as the world's most popular browser edition.

Ireland-based StatCounter announced the passing of the baton today, citing data from the last three weeks that put Chrome 15 ahead of IE8 starting the week of Nov. 21.

It was the first time that IE8 had not held the top spot since early 2010, when it replaced IE7 as the most-widely-used browser, and the first time a non-Microsoft application has led the list in StatCounter's tracking.

During the last two weeks of November and the first week of December, Chrome 15 accounted for 24% of the global browser usage market, compared to IE8's 22.9%. Mozilla's Firefox 8, meanwhile, held a 14% share during that period to take third place, and IE9, Microsoft's newest version, had the fourth position with 10.4%.

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[Jack]

A really big success for Chrome which managed to do what Firefox couldn't for years...... of course the fact that a powerful company like Google is behind this product helped a lot....they have been pushing Chrome in all ways possible from bundled with other installers to other less honorable ways like paying researches which made Chrome look good and the other web browser like second-hand.. ..
I do suspect that in the real world Internet Explorer is still the most used browser because StatCounter counts the hits and not the individual users....... and because I have a major in economics and marketing I can tell you that people always go for the NO1 product so this will help Google get even more users..

 

[jamescv7]

Also we can expect that in the future most of the regions will be Chrome in the top spot. Everyone witness on how Chrome became successful on market shares and how it impact by the users.

 

[mhartsellm]

It would seem you would have to really combine IE8 and IE9 into one, because people with XP are not able to upgrade to IE9. Combined the two would have a 33.3% share, not that I'm a IE fan.