14 DAY TRIAL // Google Chrome has seen another month of growth in November. The Google browser has managed to grab even more market share and the growth is accelerating. What's more, the transition from Chrome 6.0 to Chrome 7.0 was done in record time with Chrome 7.0's share growing from over 2 percent in October to 8 percent in November.
Overall, Google Chrome now accounts for 9.25 percent of the market, that's a 0.75 percentage points increase over the previous month, the biggest jump in one month since launch.
Another interesting point is that most Chrome users already run the latest stable release Google Chrome 7.0. Eight percent of internet users, as measured by Net Applications, are running Chrome 7.0.
Very few are still running Chrome 6.0 - 0.38 percent - and some are running newer, testing versions such as Chrome 8.0 - 0.21 percent - and even Chrome 9.0 - 0.17 percent.
What's more, Chrome 7.0 has seen one of the fastest adoption rates of any browser version to date, adding 5.64 percentage points to its global market share in the last month.
The only other browser to ever grow faster is Firefox 3.6 which added 6.09 percentage points in March this year. Of course, Firefox has a much larger user base to begin with so, when not speaking in terms of absolute market share, Chrome 7.0 grew faster.
Of course, the fact that most Chrome users are running the latest version and that so many updated so fast is solely due to Chrome's automatic and silent update system. New releases are downloaded and installed in the background and, most of the time, a user may not even notice that the browser has been updated unless big, visible changes were implemented.