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Glad to see that the top three browsers use different rendering engines. Long live diversity. Edit: in the hope of good css/html5 conformance / no browser specific programming like in the old days
It really is a great state for the browser market to be in.
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Thanks for the links - it's incredible to see how much Chrome peaks during the weekends at the expense of IE!
It really demonstrates (imho) the technical lag of companies: During the week people are browsing at work and it looks like many are still shackled to IE. But on the weekend they go home and use what they want, and that is clearly chrome. Kind of amazing to visualize at this granularity what pops out.
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You're right. Those Google guys are shifty folks. They should be more like the paragons of excellent product development and non-monopolistic business practices like the good guys at Microsoft.
Holy false dichotomy batman. Just because one company is abusive doesn't mean that you need to cheerlead another abusive company. Google is hurting Firefox and Opera by their actions too.
Because last time I checked Google provides the majority of Firefox's revenue. (Though last time I checked was like 5 years ago, so that may have changed in the interim)
I'm switching back to Safari when Mountain Lion is released. The unified search/address bar was the only thing holding me back.
try chrome for iOS you can share your open tabs with all your devices
That's the reason the only browser i have sync enabled is opera.
Poking around by individual country the only large one I found where Chrome leads is India. Anyone have sauce on why Chrome is so popular there? Are they big enough to skew the whole world?
1. Google had a huge advertising campaign to promote Chrome. It was unique and nothing like has been done for any other browser ever.
2. Majority of internet users in India are young. The mom's, dad's and grandmother's browser, I hypothesize, doesn't contribute as much to the stats as others. Many might have not even seen the pre-Chrome (or pre-Firefox) world.
3. Orkut was huge in India, Gmail and Google Search are bigger. Google has been pushing users to move to Chrome for a better experience for a long time now. That would have seen significant clickthrough especially because internet speeds have only recently started to pick up in India. Making the need for a 'better experience' more paramount.
4. Not enough business machines. Indian corporate world is not as highly computerized as North America or Europe. Indian Governmental Offices are way behind. While machines in western offices may bring about a significant increase in IE usage there, they will have lesser weight in India.
What's most interesting to me is that my biggest markets (North America, English-speaking Europe, and Australia) are all still IE strongholds. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201203-201205-...
The strongholds are China and Korea, where IE usage is well over 70%. In fact, considering that China has the most internet usage of anywhere in the world I have my doubts about the veracity of the world-wide graph. It probably drastically undersamples Chinese numbers.
1. Internet Explorer - 40.02%
2. Chrome - 21.33%
3. Firefox - 19.99%
4. Safari - 11.80%
5. Android Browser - 3.74%
6. Mozilla Compatible Agent - 1.33%
7. Opera Mini - 0.70%
8. Opera - 0.54%
9. IE with Chrome Frame - 0.21%
10. BlackBerry8530 - 0.03%
So it's not as rosy yet as we'd like.
According to Google Analytics for my web site (postjobfree.com), top 10 browsers in the last 30 days: 1. Internet Explorer - 40.02% 2. Chrome - 21.33% 3. Firefox - 19.99% 4. Safari - 11.80% 5. Android Browser - 3.74% 6. Mozilla Compatible Agent - 1.33% 7. Opera Mini - 0.70% 8. Opera - 0.54% 9. IE with Chrome Frame - 0.21% 10. BlackBerry8530 - 0.03% So it's not as rosy yet as we'd like.
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Thanks for the links - it's incredible to see how much Chrome peaks during the weekends at the expense of IE!
It really demonstrates (imho) the technical lag of companies: During the week people are browsing at work and it looks like many are still shackled to IE. But on the weekend they go home and use what they want, and that is clearly chrome. Kind of amazing to visualize at this granularity what pops out.
In some ways it would be more fair to blame Fortune 500 companies than MS for the IE tie in.