Google’s Chrome browser broke the 25% user share mark last month, putting it in the position that Firefox briefly attained but quickly lost.

In April, Chrome accounted for 25.7% of the total browser user share according to Web analytics vendor Net Applications. User share is a rough estimate of the percentage of the world’s online users who ran a specific browser during a given month, and is tracked by the California metric firm using visitor tallies to its customers’ websites.

Chrome grew its share by seven-tenths of a percentage point from March’s just-under-25%.

Mozilla’s Firefox reached that milestone in November 2009, when its Net Applications-measured user share was a few hundredths of a percentage point over 25%. Firefox held onto that for a month, dipped under the mark, regained it in March and April 2010, when it peaked at 25.1%. After that, it went into a more or less permanent decline.

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