BusinessInsider has posted their latest “Chart of the day,” and today’s shows how quickly Google’s Chrome browser is taking market share from rivals Internet Explorer and Firefox.
The fast, popular browser, which has been out for 18 months and has no marketing campaign, has taken about 7 percent of the market, according to new StatCounter figures, taking share from its rivals.
In terms of growth, Chrome has grown from 4 percent in September to its current figure, while IE fell from 58 percent to 55 percent and FF fell from 31 and fractions to 31.
Safari continues to grow as well (slowly), at the expense of Opera and IE.
Result for: Firefox
This weekend, Mozilla released the long-anticipated mobile browser, Firefox Mobile 1.0, for the Nokia Maemo.
Hoping to take market share from more established players like Opera, the Firefox browser will include customizable browser extensions as well as Weave Sync, the bookmark and history-syncing extension.
Nokia’s open source Maemo OS is only available on the N900 and N810, and the first release will also not include Flash support, which Mozilla fired at Adobe about, citing poor standard of quality. For those hoping to use YouTube without a stand-alone app, you can download the YouTube Enabler add-on.
Windows Mobile is next on the timetable, with Android coming third. Hopefully by then it will be a fully workable browser.
Result for: Firefox
According to Jay Sullivan of Mozilla, mobile Firefox, dubbed Fennec will be available “within days” for the Nokia N900 and later for a wider variety of handsets.
The browser is currently in final testing and should be available by the end of the year.
Most interestingly, Sullivan says the mobile browser will synchronize with its desktop counterpart and any pages open on a user’s desktop will open in the mobile version as well.
“At the end of the working day you can walk away from your computer and keep on going on your phone,” says Sullivan. “It encrypts all of the information and sends it back through the cloud between your desktop and mobile.”
Sullivan says the group is working on a WinMo and Android version as well but that iPhone users will likely never get the browser. “Apple is very restrictive,” he added. “As it’s a pretty closed platform we don’t see that happening soon.”
