Google's Chrome now most popular browser, overtakes Internet Explorer

Google's Chrome 15 is now the most dominant browser beating out long-time leader Internet Explorer.  StatCounter suggests that Chrome 15 recently reached a total global market share of 23.6% compared to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 market share of 23.5%. Internet Explorer still has the largest global market share if you combine all versions of the browser. Internet Explorer is the defaul browser on all Windows PCs and many users tend to stick to the browser already on their machines.

”Looking at the daily stats, Chrome 14 and 15 have been overtaking IE8 at weekends since the beginning of October,” StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen said. ”However, Chrome 15 overtook IE8 for the first time during the five day working week, in [the] week commencing [December 5th]. It looks as if people favor Chrome on weekends at home but office commercial use has now caught up.”

As a long time Firefox user, we switched to Chrome a few years back because of its speed and efficiency in rendering websites plus an increasing collection of extensions.