Chrome takes No. 2 browser spot from Firefox

Google's Chrome has narrowly overtaken Mozilla's Firefox as the second most popular desktop browser behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which is holding onto its market-leading share of the market, according to one Web analytics firm. StatCounter's monthly statistics for November show IE in the lead with 40.63 percent of the global market, followed by Chrome with 25.69 percent, Firefox with 25.23 percent, Safari with 5.92 percent and Opera with 1.82 percent. While Chrome for the first time surpassed Firefox on a global basis, that's not the case in the U.S., where IE maintains a larger share of the market (50.66 percent), and Firefox (20.09 percent) retains a lead over Chrome (17.3 percent), StatCounter reports.