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Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by Donito »

guynamedloren wrote: post #18
TheCoreh wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you first install Google Chrome, you're presented with the choice of search engine. I'm pretty sure 99% choose Google not because they are already using Chrome, but because they probably trust or know Google more than Bing or Yahoo. From my experience, IE users will usually either ignore the Bing search field, type "google.com" in and search manually, or change the search provider to Google anyway. I would also…

Random story: I've used Chrome since the day it was publicly released and am fully aware that the address bar does more than just accept urls - in fact, it's called the omnibox for a great reason. But I still type in "google.com" for 99% of my searches (probably 100+ times a day). The reason is that I like the Google homepage. The white space allows me to clear my thoughts without being distracted by whatever would b…

Interesting, I actually use Bing (or at least go there once a day) mainly to see a new picture every day. It's often high quality nice shots from random places, so I feel like I'm learning about a new place every time... makes me dream :/

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by mariusmg »

thought_alarm wrote: post #28

12 years ago I suggested that IE would lose its crown to a web browser developed by a web site using an open source cross platform rendering engine developed by Apple. And everyone said I was nuts.

If it's open source, it's not developed by apple......

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by program »

mariusmg wrote: post #32
thought_alarm wrote: post #28

12 years ago I suggested that IE would lose its crown to a web browser developed by a web site using an open source cross platform rendering engine developed by Apple. And everyone said I was nuts.

If it's open source, it's not developed by apple......

WebKit is open source and is developed by Apple and other companies such as KDE, Google, Nokia, Samsung and others.

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by Karunamon »

avallark wrote: post #30

Chrome beats IE market share. It showed that over the weekend Chrome is the most used browser, while on a weekday, people go back to work and use IE. This has two implications: 1) Companies are still locked into some solutions like OWA and sharepoint because of which users still use IE at work. 2) Users have started distinguishing between browsers and at home they prefer using Chrome. For companies with most of their…

Thought it would be worth mentioning, newer versions of OWA (14.2.247.0, at my workplace, the latest and greatest MS Exchange) explicitly support Chrome, but there is some silverlight in there. This is using the full featured interface, not the crippled "light" version. Firefox too.

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by Karunamon »

sirclueless wrote: post #8
Nogwater wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd rather test my web app in a browser with modern development tools (Chrome, Safari, IE 9, Firefox with Firebug).

I'm not so sure. If half of the value of the app you are developing is that it will still work 5 years after your consulting gig with no intervention, then it's hard to fault someone for choosing IE.

Having something that will work 5 years after your consulting gig is not a problem - avoid browser specific features and try to stick to the HTML spec as close as you can.

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by lucian1900 »

jonknee wrote: post #15
AznHisoka wrote: post #7

As much as I like Chrome, the increase in Chrome's share also means more people will be using Google by default.. and their search dominance scares me. Consumer web startups can literally die overnight if Google penalizes them(google "TeachStreet"), or if their Adwords account got banned for some unknown reason.

Perhaps, but that's mostly because people prefer Google. When you install Chrome it pops up asking what search engine you would like to use. What should Google do differently? Microsoft hides the default search provider in the initial setup behind a "choose custom settings" button. http://nyacomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/chrome-se... vs http://static.arstechnica.com/ie8_search.png

Actually, it's much worse. Have you ever tried installing google as a search provider in IE? It's almost impossible.

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by jxi »

vibrunazo wrote: post #26
jonknee wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps, but that's mostly because people prefer Google. When you install Chrome it pops up asking what search engine you would like to use. What should Google do differently? Microsoft hides the default search provider in the initial setup behind a "choose custom settings" button. http://nyacomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/chrome-se... vs http://static.arstechnica.com/ie8_search.png

Also, I have the impression that a few microsoft products (MSN, live etc) will automatically change other browser's search engine to Bing. My girlfriend told me her "google changed" after installing MSN. But maybe it was something else, as she's doesn't exactly knows what she's doing. Can anyone confirm that?

I believe there is often a check box asking if you want to change you default search engine to Bing, and its checked by default, so yes she might be right.

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by jxi »

lucian1900 wrote: post #36
jonknee wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps, but that's mostly because people prefer Google. When you install Chrome it pops up asking what search engine you would like to use. What should Google do differently? Microsoft hides the default search provider in the initial setup behind a "choose custom settings" button. http://nyacomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/chrome-se... vs http://static.arstechnica.com/ie8_search.png

Actually, it's much worse. Have you ever tried installing google as a search provider in IE? It's almost impossible.

I'm a software engineer, and it took me a good 10 minutes to find the damn setting. I haven't used IE in a few years but had to fire it up to so some UI testing.

Gosh this definitely screams monopoly abuse to me.

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by phire »

cobychapple wrote: post #5

It's great to see (from the peaks in usage of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera on weekends) that people are choosing more progressive browsers over IE for home use. It'd also be neat to see the breakdown of IE versions in this data too. Microsoft sure do have their work cut out for them!

> It'd also be neat to see the breakdown of IE versions in this data too.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20120221...

The older versions of IE all dip (including IE6), But IE9 rises.

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