Most Popular Browser in India? Chrome Beats Firefox

What’s the most popular browser in India? Well, if you go by Statcounter’s latest report, Chrome has taken over the reigns from Firefox. What’s alarming is IE’s fall and do not be surprised if Microsoft pumps in more money to drive the usage of IE9.

In India, Google has taken a very traditional approach to reach out to the mass – i.e. via print and TV campaigns and the result is in front of your eyes.

Most Popular Browser in India
Most Popular Browser in India

As far as mobile browsers are concerned, Opera rules the chart very comfortably.

Most Popular Mobile Browser in India

Talking about Pluggd.in traffic, here is the breakup

pitraffic

Guess the color code. Is blue Chrome or Firefox?

PS: Important to note that statcounter report is based on “only” those sites who have installed Statcounter script. That is, take it as a relative ranking and not absolute numbers.

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