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Chrome 15 Is Now World’s Most Popular Browser (Version)

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Re: Chrome 15 Is Now World’s Most Popular Browser (Version)

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Post by _ea1k »

guelo wrote: post #14
z92 wrote: post #5

The real news is IE share, worldwide, is now only 40%!

So we're trading a browser from a company with a desktop monopoly for one with a web search monopoly. I'm trying to get excited here. It's a shame Firefox couldn't win, but it's tough going up against a determined multibillion dollar behemoth, especially when they get to leverage their monopoly (sound familiar?) by advertising on one of the world's most popular webpages, google.com, for free.

Actually, we are trading a browser from a company with a desktop monopoly and an internet monopoly for an environment in which said monopoly has ~40%, another monopoly has ~30%, an independent player has ~20%, and a bunch of smaller players (including Mobile) share the rest. And both the ~30 and ~20 are platform independent, largely FOSS systems.

This certainly seems like an improvement to me.

Re: Chrome 15 Is Now World’s Most Popular Browser (Version)

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Post by markokocic »

deathwarmedover wrote: post #2

A bold title, followed by the caveat at the end "These stats are based on the calculation of StatCounter.com, and the actual browser market share may differ from these."

Since Chrome doesn't have real AdBlocker, it is logical that stat counter will show its number accurate, while Firefox share will be underestimated due to a large amount of users blocking StatCounter and similar tracking services.

Re: Chrome 15 Is Now World’s Most Popular Browser (Version)

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Post by mzarate06 »

guelo wrote: post #14
z92 wrote: post #5

The real news is IE share, worldwide, is now only 40%!

So we're trading a browser from a company with a desktop monopoly for one with a web search monopoly. I'm trying to get excited here. It's a shame Firefox couldn't win, but it's tough going up against a determined multibillion dollar behemoth, especially when they get to leverage their monopoly (sound familiar?) by advertising on one of the world's most popular webpages, google.com, for free.

So we're trading a browser from a company with a desktop monopoly for one with a web search monopoly. I'm trying to get excited here.

Despite your sentiment, this is still moving the web forward. We all benefit from browsers built by vendors that have a genuine passion for the web. I'd argue that most believe Chrome is built from such passion more so than IE.

Since you brought up Firefox - I've always been on their side, up until I started living w/pain due to their decision to drop support for WebSQLDatabase. I'm now rooting for Chrome!

Re: Chrome 15 Is Now World’s Most Popular Browser (Version)

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Post by chrislomax »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #17
chrislomax wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I too would have liked Firefox to win but I think it's nothing to do with advertising the reason for Firefox declining and it's simply that Firefox has lost it's mojo. From version 4 they killed their browser. They may have redeemed themselves recently but I wouldn't care to look, Chrome picked up where Mozilla left off. Chrome is a fantastic browser and I never have issue with it. Firefox 4 and 5 used to crash at le…

"I too would have liked Firefox to win" "They may have redeemed themselves recently but I wouldn't care to look" These two sentences feel contradictory to me. If you want Firefox to win, at least give it a try once every few versions.

Although they seem a contradiction my argument is that they took on a development life cycle that was far above their means.

I would have loved Firefox to come out on top as for me they changed the web when they introduced tabs but they have been slow on innovation since. I feel Chrome gave them a kick and they responded, companies shouldn't operate like that, innovation should continue regardless.

I say I wouldn't care to look because I have moved on, Chrome goes above and beyond what I want from a browser, speed and stability. If Chrome starts to go in the direction of how Firefox went I would have no issue in trying another browser. I don't have time for allegiance to a browser, I just need it to work.

Re: Chrome 15 Is Now World’s Most Popular Browser (Version)

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Post by chrislomax »

j_col wrote: post #16
chrislomax wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I too would have liked Firefox to win but I think it's nothing to do with advertising the reason for Firefox declining and it's simply that Firefox has lost it's mojo. From version 4 they killed their browser. They may have redeemed themselves recently but I wouldn't care to look, Chrome picked up where Mozilla left off. Chrome is a fantastic browser and I never have issue with it. Firefox 4 and 5 used to crash at le…

> I would rather put my trust in Google than Microsoft, I believe that Google have the interest of a faster more up to date web than Microsoft do and I go with their values. As someone who is deeply concerned with Google's dominance of the Web (and increasingly mobile), I would dearly love for you to list out your reasons for trusting them, so that I can change my mind. In the meantime I'll stick to Firefox, loss of…

Can I ask a question, what phone do you have?

Re: Chrome 15 Is Now World’s Most Popular Browser (Version)

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Post by j_col »

chrislomax wrote: post #27
j_col wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I would rather put my trust in Google than Microsoft, I believe that Google have the interest of a faster more up to date web than Microsoft do and I go with their values. As someone who is deeply concerned with Google's dominance of the Web (and increasingly mobile), I would dearly love for you to list out your reasons for trusting them, so that I can change my mind. In the meantime I'll stick to Firefox, loss of…

Can I ask a question, what phone do you have?

HP Pre3 (unlocked) with webOS.

Re: Chrome 15 Is Now World’s Most Popular Browser (Version)

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Post by deathwarmedover »

markokocic wrote: post #22
deathwarmedover wrote: post #2

A bold title, followed by the caveat at the end "These stats are based on the calculation of StatCounter.com, and the actual browser market share may differ from these."

Since Chrome doesn't have real AdBlocker, it is logical that stat counter will show its number accurate, while Firefox share will be underestimated due to a large amount of users blocking StatCounter and similar tracking services.

I'd love to see statistics on how many people use AdBlockers and/or Ghostery vs the wider audience that would be picked up by StatCounter and friends. I would be surprised if they made a large dent in the statistics though.
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