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Google Chrome has 20% global market share

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Re: Google Chrome has 20% global market share

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Post by profitbaron »

joejohnson wrote: post #11

I don't understand Google's game here. I thought Mozilla was being showered with cash from Google? If Google is now betting on Chrome, are they going to continue supporting Mozilla? Mozilla is a pretty small-budgeted non-profit and I think they rely heavily on Google's support.

Google pays for the right to be the default homepage & search engine. They aren't paying to support Mozilla they are also doing it, to prevent other SE's (BING) from holding this right - Chrome is a way to reduce this cost as well as, a few other things for Google.

Re: Google Chrome has 20% global market share

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Post by cletus »

profitbaron wrote: post #17
mindstab wrote: post #14

Isn't the bigger news here that IE has dropped below 50% market share (dramatically) for the first time in over a decade? It's dominance is kind of over.

The IE team need to implement what Firefox & Chrome (to some effects) does. Firefox & Chrome constantly bug you when theres new update - if you keep ignoring Firefox's it starts asking you to update before it even opens. Why is this important? Well a lot of people still use IE6 & have finally upgraded to IE7 however, we're on IE9 now with IE10 in test drive mode. These users aren't tech savvy individuals etc who thin…

That's not quite correct.

Firefox constantly bugs you to upgrade and it's annoying because it does it when it starts up. Why is it starting up? Because I want to use it. Not the right time to upgrade.

Chrome just automatically updates itself, which is a MUCH better user experience (IMHO).

As for IE6/7 users, I would say they're largely using it at work where they have no choice.

Re: Google Chrome has 20% global market share

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Post by cletus »

dannylipsitz wrote: post #2

I'm sold on Google Chrome, but it's frustrating that some sites aren't available on Chrome and I'm forced to used Firefox and Safari from time to time. Does that qualify me as a user of all three, thereby inflating the statistics?

I occasionally get this, most recently I think with conEdison. The solution is a plugin to pretend to be different browsers.

Re: Google Chrome has 20% global market share

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Post by barredo »

pnathan wrote: post #8
wccrawford wrote: post #3

So the real question is: What did Chrome do differently than Firefox to gain market share that fast?

It's fast. It's fast. It's fast. Oh, and it pop-up blocks, adblocks, and flashblocks.

There's a new kind of popup that's been eluding all browsers (Chrome, Fx, Safari, IE, etc), i don't know the technical details, but you can watch it visiting ThePirateBay for instance with a couple of clicks at most: it's there.

How do they do it? I don't know, but no actual browser can block it. I'd guess they tie the click as a real user action to trigger the popup or something similar...

Re: Google Chrome has 20% global market share

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Post by kalleboo »

pilif wrote: post #18
mindstab wrote: post #14

Isn't the bigger news here that IE has dropped below 50% market share (dramatically) for the first time in over a decade? It's dominance is kind of over.

sigh - the end users of the application I'm working on use 70%-90% IE depending on the platform. I wish this would change, but I doubt it as IE still is a major player in the enterprise market.

I guess I'm luckily in that at my work, WebKit (Safari+Chrome) represents 60% of the visitors, with the rest being split among Firefox (20%) and IE (10%, which we don't even bother testing for)

Re: Google Chrome has 20% global market share

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Post by Uchikoma »

pnathan wrote: post #8
wccrawford wrote: post #3

So the real question is: What did Chrome do differently than Firefox to gain market share that fast?

It's fast. It's fast. It's fast. Oh, and it pop-up blocks, adblocks, and flashblocks.

It's fast.

It does not take ages to start especially.

Re: Google Chrome has 20% global market share

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Post by weavejester »

pnathan wrote: post #8
wccrawford wrote: post #3

So the real question is: What did Chrome do differently than Firefox to gain market share that fast?

It's fast. It's fast. It's fast. Oh, and it pop-up blocks, adblocks, and flashblocks.

The question was what Chrome does differently to Firefox. Firefox had adblocking before Chrome ever existed.

IMO Chrome:

- Feels faster

- Looks a bit better

Firefox, on the other hand:

- Has better extensions

- Has a better URL bar search function

I actually use Chrome nowadays. It turns out that the speed and looks of the UI are important enough that I can put up with less polished extensions and a slightly inferior URL bar.

I wish Google would make their URL bar better though. Surely it can't be that hard to match in the middle of URLs rather than just matching from the beginning? :/

Re: Google Chrome has 20% global market share

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Post by emp_ »

barredo wrote: post #24
pnathan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's fast. It's fast. It's fast. Oh, and it pop-up blocks, adblocks, and flashblocks.

There's a new kind of popup that's been eluding all browsers (Chrome, Fx, Safari, IE, etc), i don't know the technical details, but you can watch it visiting ThePirateBay for instance with a couple of clicks at most: it's there. How do they do it? I don't know, but no actual browser can block it. I'd guess they tie the click as a real user action to trigger the popup or something similar...

Because it is tied to your clicks, most popup injections now happen when you focus on a search-like field or click something, this is not an automated popup that the browser can block, the browser does believe you wanted to open that extra window.

Re: Google Chrome has 20% global market share

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Post by josefresco »

ryanklee wrote: post #13
joejohnson wrote: post #11

I don't understand Google's game here. I thought Mozilla was being showered with cash from Google? If Google is now betting on Chrome, are they going to continue supporting Mozilla? Mozilla is a pretty small-budgeted non-profit and I think they rely heavily on Google's support.

My understanding is that the money that Google forks over to Mozilla is simply to keep Google as the browser's default search engine, not to sustain Firefox as a competing browser. If Google ceased that "funding", I'm sure some other search engine would step up to the plate. (Note: I've got no sources for this; just a cursory understanding.)

MS has tried and will try again to pry this spot from Google for their own engine Bing.
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