Vista - September 2008: Chrome steals from IE, Firefox, and Opera

When Chrome arrived last month, we had mostly positive thoughts about what Google was bringing to the browser market. With a month gone by, it's time to see how well the new browser performed in September. We looked at how the browser market stood in August, so we've got a nice basis of comparison to see Chrome's impact.

Between the two months, Internet Explorer dropped by just over half a percent: from 72.15 percent to 71.52 percent. This is nothing new. What is new is that Firefox's growth was stunted: the most popular alternative browser dropped by 0.27 percent (from 19.73 percent to 19.46 percent), and Opera lost everything it grabbed in August: from 0.74 percent to 0.69 percent. These losses can be attributed mainly to Google Chrome, which managed to settle in at 0.78 percent, just ahead of Opera. Safari, on the other hand, continued its growth, grabbing 0.28 percent and moving from 6.37 percent to 6.65 percent.

Full Story: September 2008: Chrome steals from IE, Firefox, and Opera

Hi slimy,

do you know how these figures are arrived at, is it from search engines reading the browser or certain websites, or by survey, I have all five browsers on my main machine but only really use FF3 so I wonder if the novelty factor is applying here?

From my understanding, Net Applications derives its data by aggregating the traffic across all the websites that use its service. Obviously this isn't perfectly accurate, but it's as accurate as it gets

Hi Slimy,

its real data then so 5% in that market is impressive, even for something with the google name,, I did like the browser but missed the add-ons I use with FF. as a simple tool to surf the web it's perfect, and fast, will probably try it again when it's matured a bit

Yep, I also liked it and will try it again soon, but for now it's still lacking in features.

Just checked and we are showing 3.52% market share for crome in the last 30 days

Hi, that is an impressive figure considering the technical nature of the forums and thus it's users, although it may just mean we all try everything new

have just noticed that another update has been released today so will have to check out any improvements