Google's Chrome 15 is now the most popular web browser version according to a research done by StatCounter Global Stats.

StatCounter Global Stats, a research firm mentioned in their report that Google's Chrome 15 is now the top web browser version for the first time in a weekly basis. This report done by StatCounter Global Stats was based on aggregate data collected from a sample of more than 15 billion page view per month, 4 million of which are from the U.S. The report was also based on the StatCounter network of more than 3 billion websites.

Statistics show that Google's Chrome 15 had 23.6% share of the worldwide market. Its competitor, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 comes in a close second position garnering a percentage share of 23.5%. Despite this, the report also showed that there is a difference in terms of the web browser utilized in different parts of the world. In the U.S., Internet Explorer 8 is still the leading browser version (27.0%) while Chrome 15 only has 18.1% share for. On the other hand, the UK results show that Chrome 15 was the leading web browser with 24.7% share while Internet Explorer 8 had 21.1%.

Aodhan Cullen, CEO of StatCounter remarked that Google Chrome was able to achieve this position despite the fact that Google had announced the availability of Chrome last 2010 and many IT administrators were quick in utilizing this web browser. Cullen also further stated that ""Looking at the daily stats, Chrome 14 and 15 have been overtaking IE8 at weekends since the beginning of October. However, Chrome 15 overtook IE8 for the first time during the five day working week, in week commencing 5th December. It looks as if people favor Chrome on weekends at home but office commercial use has now caught up."

Google has already been involved in the browser market since it has teamed up before with the development of Mozilla Firefox browser. The company, led by CEO Larry Page began its efforts to develop their own web browser in the year 2006. The development of their own browser came about because the company was concerned that existing browsers during this time were "not good enough" to support the company's online services and could lead users away from utilizing their search engine.