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Re: Google Chrome has 20% global market share

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Post by eneveu » Sat, Jul 02, 2011, 3:54 PM UTC

blumentopf wrote: post #15

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.

I know a lot of people in the Green Party here in Germany who deliberately use Firefox because they deem it to be the most politically correct browser. My impression is that a lot of them neither realize that Firefox is indeed primarily sponsored by Google (which they consider evil), nor that Chrome/Chromium is open source, just as Firefox. They prefer Firefox for touchy-feely, not technical reasons. So there's a mar…

Wow, people from the Green Party really consider Google evil? I wonder what they would say, were Google not to invest in renewable energy, and in reducing energy consumption * ... I can see how some people might be concerned about privacy, but there are many more companies I would consider evil before Google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Energy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google.org#Renewable_energy

http://www.google.com/green/

*: reducing their energy expenditure is obviously not entirely altruistic. Powering data centers is costly. But still...

Re: Google Chrome has 20% global market share

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Post by blumentopf » Sat, Jul 02, 2011, 9:01 PM UTC

eneveu wrote: post #71

blumentopf wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know a lot of people in the Green Party here in Germany who deliberately use Firefox because they deem it to be the most politically correct browser. My impression is that a lot of them neither realize that Firefox is indeed primarily sponsored by Google (which they consider evil), nor that Chrome/Chromium is open source, just as Firefox. They prefer Firefox for touchy-feely, not technical reasons. So there's a mar…

Wow, people from the Green Party really consider Google evil? I wonder what they would say, were Google not to invest in renewable energy, and in reducing energy consumption * ... I can see how some people might be concerned about privacy, but there are many more companies I would consider evil before Google. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Energy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google.org#Renewable_energy http://ww…

Good point. A lot of Green activists also abhor Apple even though Apple's hardware products are best of breed with regards to avoiding eco-hazardous materials (BFRs, arsenic in glass, etc). Their views are obviously not entirely rational. :-)

Re: Google Chrome has 20% global market share

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Post by kalleboo » Sun, Jul 03, 2011, 8:07 AM UTC

smackfu wrote: post #32

kalleboo wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Very odd, what sector has a majority of Safari/Chrome users? Even general public (non-enterprise) wouldn't skew like that.

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