Chrome beats IE market share for one day

zitterbewegung wrote: post #3

codesuela wrote: post #2

Internet Explorer: the employees browser of duress

Do you want the overhead of testing your internal web application on two browsers or one?

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Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by cobychapple » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 3:30 AM UTC

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!

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by Nogwater » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 3:35 AM UTC

zitterbewegung wrote: post #3

codesuela wrote: post #2

Internet Explorer: the employees browser of duress

Do you want the overhead of testing your internal web application on two browsers or one?

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

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by AznHisoka » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 3:40 AM UTC

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.

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by sirclueless » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 3:48 AM UTC

Nogwater wrote: post #6

zitterbewegung wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you want the overhead of testing your internal web application on two browsers or one?

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.

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 3:53 AM UTC

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.

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Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Post by rhplus » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 4:07 AM UTC

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!

You could interpolate from the chart that shows distribution by browser versions up to February 2012. Chrome's auto-update feature is staggeringly efficient.

    IE 8.0         18.86
    IE 9.0         12.08
    IE 7.0          3.32
    IE 6.0          1.48

    Chrome 16.0    13.39
    Chrome 15.0     0.35
    Chrome 14.0     0.35
    Chrome 12.0     0.27
    Chrome 13.0     0.25

EDIT: removed the Firefox and "Other" numbers as their sum is nowhere close to the aggregated numbers in the browser monthly charts [2]. StatCounter must be counting recent versions of Chrome and Firefox as "Other" in data set [1].

Source:

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201102... (from the CSV file)

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201102-201203