Chrome's market share is a considerable jump to say it was released little over a year ago. I never saw this kind of growth for Firefox until the paid ads started appearing everywhere.

Chrome has attained in its first year the same average market growth of Firefox (roughly 4.5%) that it attained in 5 years with paid referral programs and advertisements everywhere. I wonder what growth Chrome will attain when it hits the rapid phase of its growth.

Also to consider is Microsoft is shipping Windows 7 in Europe with IE, Firefox, Chrome and another IIRC.

I would be surprised if this happened. In the last year, Firefox added 3.51 points to its market share while Chrome added 2.82 (Net Applications).

Additionally, Firefox grew its users base by 40% in the last year--adding nearly 100 million users.

I love my Firefox. I don't think I could give it up for anything. The thing that sells me the most on FF is the extensions. I also build extensions and I don't really want to ever rewrite my FF extensions. It would totally suck...