browser wars: Chrome on its way to beating Firefox

**HunkyLuke** · 10-02-2011, 03:16 PM

Stats Counter released its monthly browser stats showing that Chrome is on its way up and poised to take over second position from Firefox. This jump in Chrome usage comes thanks to both IE and FF losing users.

Chrome has increased its share by a remarkable 50% since January 2011. During that same period, Firefox’s share has declined 13%. The intersection of these ascending and descending paths falls sometime in November. That's why StatCounter is predicting that in December, Chrome will jump to #2 and should hold 26.6% of global use compared to Firefox’s 25.3% share. These last numbers are of course speculation, but based on solid trends. Only time will tell.

**zbuckz_lloyd** · 10-02-2011, 08:25 PM

I still go back to FF time and time again. it's just that I have two extensions that I can't live without.

**nickbaer** · 10-03-2011, 09:47 AM

Safari is not performing well on Lion. I frequently have to Force Quit Safari, when I have certain pages open heavy with Flash and Java.

I feel bad about it. Safari has a small footprint.

I called Apple support, and the dweeb only had a Windows-esq answer: reset and clear history, cookies, etc.

Not a good answer, when returning to frequently viewed sites, it helps to have cookies and some history.