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Looks to be browser fragmentation. "Other" (which is massively increased) and IE9 are the only increasing entries in this plot: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-200809... 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.
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Linear extrapolation in general is unwise, but with market share it is particularly foolish. I'd bet the opposite, that the gap between the two browsers takes longer than a year to vanish.
In South America, where these stats show Chrome in the lead, the growth seemed to be accelerating up to and beyond the crossover point (the same in the few individual countries where they're leading). What about marketshare particularly should make this unusual or unexpected? I'd assume some kind of tipping point effect as it becomes "normal" not to run IE and/or to run Chrome that could lead to such acceleration sin…
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/605/ "As you can see, by late next month you'll have over four dozen husbands. Better get bulk rate on that wedding cake." 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.
No extrapolation here[0]. Fx is dogfighting with IE, all the while Cr is coming increasingly closer. [0] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-monthly-200809-201107
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-200809-201107
In antarctica everyone is using safari.