You might expect that Chrome would enjoy its strongest position, and have taken the lead, in the US - since that is after all Google's home. Go to the site and buy one of his books, why not.) You can also view this map directly on OpenHeatMap. (Thanks to Pete Warden's wonderful OpenHeatMap for letting us render this map. Dominant browser by country: blue = Internet Explorer, brown = Firefox, green = Chrome. It's also only for this month, up to 21 May, so it's the freshest snapshot we can get. All the data relates to the month so far and shows only the leading browser for each country, no matter how narrow the lead - so in that sense this gives you an overview that's rather like "first past the post" voting. IE is blue Firefox is brown Chrome is green. Here's the world map, country by country, drawn from the StatCounter data. (Google fixed them soon after.)īut while the headline figure is straightforward, once you start to dig into the figures the story becomes more intriguing. (This can make it memory-hungry, but on modern desktops and laptops that's not a significant constraint.) It has also proven to be very secure, surviving its first two years at the Pwn2own contest - although this year it was the target of focussed attention by "grey hat" hackers who found and exploited flaws. Thus for example every separate tab or window runs as a separate process which can be killed individually and if one of them crashes, it won't bring the other tabs/windows down. It's a remarkable triumph for Google's browser, which was only launched in September 2008 - and attests both to its quality and, arguably, the benefits of being advertised on the front page of the world's most-visited search engine, where a "Download Chrome" button marked the only time the company has advertised any product rather than a charitable offering such as blood donation (as it did after the US 9/11 attacks in September 2011 2001).Ĭhrome is one of a new generation of browsers, conceived from the ground up to be both more stable and more secure than those which preceded it.
Weekly (and daily) data can fluctuate a great deal depending on events, which is why we prefer to take a longer sample.
Update: StatCounter has asked us to clarify: while StatCounter's weekly stats show Chrome passing IE on a worldwide basis (and fluctuating a great deal if you look at weekends, when Chrome tends to get a "bounce"), the data here are based on the data for the month so far. That share varies by day as well, because a number of people use IE at work and then Chrome at home. The data for the "world" region on StatCounter for the month so far shows IE just ahead, at 32.42% against Chrome's 32.29%. Chrome is challenging Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the world's most-used desktop browser, having passed Firefox, according to new data collected by Statcounter, which samples the browser-agent string used of thousands of sites.
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