Chrome Tops 25% Market Share for the First Time

Google has scored another milestone with its browser as Chrome has topped 25% market share for the first time over the past weekend.

ZoomAccording to StatCounter, Chrome reached 25.02 percent last Sunday.

Since Chrome's market share is higher on weekends than during the week, it is unlikely that it will be averaging 25 percent for the entire month. However, the market share for first 12 days of September is 23.72 percent, up from 23.16 percent in August, which indicates that Chrome could surpass 24 percent this month. At least as far as StatCounter data suggests, Firefox is now within Chrome's reach.

Firefox dropped below 27 percent share for the first 12 days this month and seems to be on track of losing another full point of market share in September. If the current trend holds up, Chrome may be passing Firefox by November. A major problem for Firefox appears to be the rapid release process as Mozilla has failed to transition users from one version to another version fast enough. Firefox 6, for example, accounts for only 54 percent of Firefox share after nearly a month of availability.

Google typically transitions 80 percent of its user base from one version to another within one week after the release of a new browser version.