According to StatCounter, Google Chrome overtook Firefox as the second browser

There are interesting differences between the continents (probably even greater differences between countries, too):

* Firefox is No 1 (tied or otherwise) in Africa and Europe, and second in North America

* Chrome is safely in second in Asia, and miles ahead even IE in South America.

Personally, I very much prefer Firefox.

I'm curious about the small dips you can see in the long term view of Firefox's browser share.

They all seem to match up exactly with a bump in one of the other browsers' share (mostly IE or Chrome). Is this because Firefox users are prone to temporarily switch to another browser and back again whenever a new version is released?

In Australia I have seen that out of businesses, home users, and college students Chrome is the most popular, IE is second, and Safari is third (and fourth for iOS). I haven't seen Firefox on a computer except my own laptop for quite a few years. It's interesting to see how different reality is to my own observations.

The stat that I thought was more interesting was that iPad Safari usage has passed IE6 in North America.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3243804

I get a feeling that we've seen peak Firefox a year or two ago.

Chrome is by far the best browser imo. I am surprised it has taken so long to get here to be honest. I guess people are just too lazy to switch sometimes.