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Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by hammersend »

cooldeal wrote: post #67
tysonjennings wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dude, have you ever considered doing anything other than cheerleading MS and hating on Google. I have never seen a single post by you on here or Slashdot that was not either defending MS or being negative towards Google in some way. How pathetic.

Have you considered anything other than cheerleading Google and Android and hating on Apple/MS? And I like how you attack him personally and call him pathetic because you have no answer to his post and thus want to wish it away. How pathetic.

You're One To Talk Being Worse Than RecoiledSnake.you Are Probably One Of The Most Obnoxious Google Haters On This Site. Also I Just Looked Through Tysons Post History And He Is In No Way A Google Cheerleader Or Microsoft Hater. Consider Growing Up.

P.s. Ignore My Capital Letters. Jellybean doesn't work well with Swype yet.

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by ShawnBird »

simonbrown wrote: post #65
mdwrigh2 wrote: post #49

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> (And aside from ads and personal info, browsers don't make money in a direct way.) Not entirely true. The Chrome Webstore makes some money, though admittedly not much.

Source?

http://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?hl=e...

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by mappu »

geon wrote: post #15
femto113 wrote: post #12

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?

> why Chrome is so popular there? Could it be because it has to run on cheap hardware? Is there any more lightweight browser?

Dillo 3, and h3v.

Non-graphical: links, w3m. Other 'light' webkit shells: uzbl, Midori, Arora

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by bztzt »

recoiledsnake wrote: post #48
mindstab wrote: post #39

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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.

>But on the weekend they go home and use what they want, and that is clearly chrome At least some of that traffic comes from preinstalled OEM copies, which Google pays the OEMs for having Chrome preinstalled as the default browser. Also, it comes bundled with things like Java, Acrobat Reader,CCleaner, Divx Player, RealPlayer, Avast and Flash etc., so if people just click next, which most tend to do, they end up with…

I didn't realize Chrome was being preloaded by OEMs. It's nice to see that OEMs are actually using their freedom to customize Windows installs to do something socially valuable for a change.

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by dennisgorelik »

tikhonj wrote: post #79
dennisgorelik wrote: post #78

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.

Does that include both mobile Safari and desktop Safari in one category? I would be curious about how many people use desktop Safari as opposed to the mobile version.

Yes, both are in one "Safari" category.

Here's split by OS:

1. Windows - 78.77%

2. Macintosh - 8.39%

3. iOS - 6.10%

4. Android - 3.88%

5. (not set) - 1.50%

6. Linux - 0.69%

7. BlackBerry - 0.30%

8. Nokia - 0.12%

9. SymbianOS - 0.09%

10. Windows Phone - 0.08%

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by Tobu »

xiaoma wrote: post #77
dneb7 wrote: post #46

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-...

I wouldn't say stronghold. IE is still the leader but by a relatively small margin in most English speaking markets. 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. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browse…

StatCounter sees low usage from China (in page-views). The great firewall certainly plays a role. I wonder if said firewall doesn't also play games with the user-agent header, though.

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/open-letter-ms#incorrect-wei...

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by mjs »

judofyr wrote: post #7

Akamai just recently released their statistics, which shows a completely different picture: http://www.akamai.com/io

From the FAQ http://www.akamai.com/html/io/io_faq.html: the data comes from a sample of 600 million requests (out of two trillion (?)) to mostly US sites who are Akamai customers.

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by redthrowaway »

cooldeal wrote: post #70
alttab wrote: post #62

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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.

> Google is hurting Firefox

...By giving Mozilla $300MM a year?

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