The fight between web browsers became more fierce in September 2008, when Google released the first public beta of Chrome. Since then the browser is gaining more and more users, especially the speed at which renders pages, something that other companies have tried to emulate. For Internet Explorer while sitting comfortably in first place the most used but the second place, it is still Firefox, you can change hands in the near future.
This is pointing to the statistics of StatCounter, which measures traffic and millions of hits on sites around the world. According to its current global graph, Firefox is now at 26.8% interest in the race while Chrome is with 23.6% in December but that could change. If the growth of Chrome and Firefox continue to fall at the same rate, the Web browser will have 25.3% at the end of 2011 against 26.6% of Google's browser.
Since Net Applications, a competitor of StatCounter and telling statistics to measure more accurately, have converged data. According to them in December of that year, Firefox will remain in second place with 22.3% share, followed by 17.8% with Chrome. The excess of the Google browser should happen only in the middle of 2012, by which time the share of Internet Explorer should drop to below 50% for the first time.
Even with an imminent overtaking or not, Mozilla has worked to bring innovation and a good performance improvement for Firefox in recent months. The question is whether this will be enough for it to continue in second place for some time.
