By: Clint Boulton, eWeek
Google’s Chrome Web browser enjoyed its biggest monthly market share boost ever and could pass Mozilla’s Firefox browser in early 2012, according to new data from Net Applications. The market researcher put Chrome at 17.6 percent through October, an impressive 1.4 percent gain from the fledgling browser’s September share of 16.2 percent. The only other time Chrome grew more than 1 percent month-to-month by Net Applications calculations is when the browser grew more than 1.2 percent, from 14.3 percent to 15.5 percent. Mozilla Firefox, meanwhile, rose from 22.48 percent in September to 22.51 percent last month. But Firefox’s share is falling more often than it gains and Chrome today is within 5 percent of Firefox.
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