Google’s new Chrome browser has taken 1% of the global browser market within a day of launch according to analysis conducted by web traffic analysis company, StatCounter.
“This is a phenomenal performance,” commented Aodhan Cullen of StatCounter which is a rival to Google on website analytics. “This is war on Microsoft but the big loser could be Firefox.”
StatCounter analysis conducted today (Wednesday, 03 September 2008) finds that Internet Explorer holds 70% of the global browser market followed by Firefox with 22%. The information is based on a sample of 18.5 million page views globally on Wednesday, 3rd September.
Based on WebKit (just like Safari), Google created a shock wave with news of its browser this week. The browser offers tabs, an OPera-like speed dial facility and a "super-fast JavaScript engine called V8". In a nice touch, browser tabs are all separate processes, so it one crashes it doesn't bring the rest of the browser down. Google has also incorporated its Gears toolkit into Chrome and hopes that the non-crashy, better Java and native Gears support will make the browser the application of choice for Windows users hoping to run applications using their browser. (Versions for Mac and Linux are also in the frame).
Also note that it is a tad bit faster than other browsers at Javascript - thanks to C|Net for testing.
Um can I has the Mac version now?
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Well that just means that a
Well that just means that a lot of people downloaded it to try it out. That doesn't mean that 1% have switched to Chrome. They need to give it a few months before they say how good it's doing. How many people do you think downloaded it, tried it for 5 minutes and said, "Meh, it'll stick with."?
Whee. I've tried Chrome and
Whee. I've tried Chrome and frankly, while it is fast the lack of third-party support like you get with Firefox 3.0.1 means it will still be a very niche product. And of course, there are many concerns about whether Chrome is pretty much an advertising platform under Google control, too.
Yeah but..,
That's "I can has Mac version nau?"
But yeah, this means nothing. Half the world and his dog tried it. Even my mostly computer illiterate Mother tried it to see if she prefered it over Firefix. Come back in a week and we'll see.
Bleh
No adblock, crappy plugin support, etc.
For a browser that claims to be built to support javascript applications primarily, it is embarassing that several GOOGLE apps do not work in Chrome, such as Google Page Editor and Google Groups:
http://groups.google.com/group/Is-Something-Broken/browse_thread/thread/...
Anyway, I wouldn't hold your breath for a mac version. Google has a terrible history when it comes to developing apps for the mac.
They released their windows google talk client 3 years ago... still no mac version. A mac user has to manually configure iChat to connect to google talk, and still has no SIP functionality with other google talk users.
What about Google Web Accelerator (http://webaccelerator.google.com/)? Google launched this in 2005 and still it is bafflingly windows-only.
Even if you are planning on using Google WiFi in it's supported locations, they only provide their Google Secure Access client for Windows; any other operating system user has to hack together scripts using curl and grep to get it working.
Google just simply has a terrible record with providing equivalent desktop tools for macs. Microsoft should give them a medal for helping them maintain their desktop dominance.
It is really disappointing to see apple-centric blogs like this completely disregard their terrible track record.
Don't complain -- competition is a good thing!
I tired it and outside of the fact it is so new that plug-ins are virtually non-existent, I liked it.
Google success with prior efforts is pretty immaterial to me as I want to use whatever browser that gives me the best experience.
I would expect to see Firefox and others follow with performance upgrades, which will benefit all users.
So thank you Google!