Trend implies Chrome to overtake IE in browser share in one year.

And within 2 years it will be used by more than 100% of people worldwide!<p>As my maths teacher used to say, "even in the privacy of your own home, you should not extrapolate."

Obligatory XKCD: <a href="http://xkcd.com/605/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/605/</a> "As you can see, by late next month you'll have over four dozen husbands. Better get bulk rate on that wedding cake."<p>IMNSHO, the adoption of IE9 (on new computers with Win7 preinstalled, perhaps?) might make a significant dent in that projection. I've seen a very similar graph (starring Firefox) a few years back; and then IE came back from the dead with version 8.

Who cares? Whatever browser is the market leader doesn't matter because you will still need to support IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari for the foreseeable future. Nobody has ever made a (significant) profit from a browser. In fact, Microsoft lost billions for their efforts (see U.S. vs. MSFT).<p>Can someone please explain to me why this matters?

The graph the title links to is a little dated, it only cites stats up to July 2011. Here's a more up to date graph citing stats up to October 2011:<p><a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200809-201110" rel="nofollow">http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200809-201110</a><p>The curves are even more revealing.

Looks to be browser fragmentation.<p>"Other" (which is massively increased) and IE9 are the only increasing entries in this plot:<p><a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-200809-201110" rel="nofollow">http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-200809...</a><p>While what's in that "other" plot isn't listed, the Chrome and Firefox version schemes and their associated plethora of smaller and more frequent releases have played havoc with the classic version-plot scheme.

Chrome 15 is right now in the process of claiming the most used <i>version</i> from IE 8.<p>But like the combined version share, what you can use is often more about the people holding you back on IE 6,7,8 than the ones pushing you forward.