Browser Wars: Google’s Chrome challenging Firefox

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer remained the dominant Web browser with 40.63% of the global market, findings indicated.

SAN FRANCISCO: Google’s Chrome Web browser is gaining ground on Firefox, and according to one industry tracker may even have eclipsed its open-source rival in the global market. Chrome was the world’s second favorite Web browsing program in November, bumping Firefox from that position for the first month ever, according to StatCounter Global Stats. Google’s Chrome had a 25.69% share of online browsing last month compared to 25.23% for Firefox, according to StatCounter. Firefox is managed by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer remained the dominant Web browser with 40.63% of the global market, the findings indicated.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 4^th, 2011.