Gemius says Chrome has overtaken Internet Explorer

At the end of last week, what already seemed inevitable happened: Google Chrome, which has been dynamically emerging since its release in 2008, has overtaken MSIE, which is increasingly descending.

Chrome has produced reliable quarterly growth of around 2010 percentage points since the beginning of 3, so market realignment is only a matter of time. Among browsers, Firefox has been at the forefront since April 2009, with Internet Explorer and Chrome battling each other until now, and Opera in fourth place. It is interesting to note that during this year, only the Google browser was able to improve its share of the dominant players in the Hungarian browser market (+9,89 percentage points), while the others suffered significant losses in the period under review (Firefox: -5,07 percentage points; MSIE: - 5,62 percentage points).

While users of Chrome, Opera, and Firefox are already doing well in adopting new versions, thanks in part to their built-in auto-update system, MSIE doesn’t say so. It took 9.0 months for version 3 to catch up with the already 10-year-old MSIE 6.0, which only reached 7.0 in the last week of October and is still significantly behind its 8.0 sibling.

The growth potential of 9.0 is strongly held back by its incompatibility with Windows XP, which is still the most common operating system on the Hungarian market. The combined share of MSIE 9.0-compatible Windows Vista and Windows 7 is just 40%. Although the leader’s XP position is gradually eroding (-12,23 percentage points since the beginning of the year), it still towers high with a market share of 56,95%. The most dynamically growing operating system of the year, Windows 12, which grew by more than 7 percentage points, holds about a third of the market (34,93%). Vista, which was at the bottom of the podium, never really set foot in the domestic market and has now fallen to less than half of its “peak performance” in 2009 (4,46%).

Source: gemius.hu