Chrome passes Safari in browser usage

In its 15th month of public existence, Google's Chrome browser surpassed Safari for share of worldwide usage in December (2009).

Chrome jumped from 3.9 percent to 4.6 percent of usage, according to statistics that analytics firm Net Applications publishes based on the 160 million monthly visitors to the network of Web sites using its services. Safari increased from 4.4 percent to 4.5 percent.

Chrome's jump came as Google released the first beta version of its browser for Mac OS X and Linux computers.  (read more at cnet)

dec 2009