Chrome now the most popular browser

I think it happened only for a day or something then, which was still news worthy, but it was still pretty volatile then. Now it's looking like it's going to be a permanent thing (well unless people stop using Chrome in the future).

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by Tichy » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 1:37 PM UTC

But how is that possible? Because of the "choose your browser" dialog on MS Windows?

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 1:38 PM UTC

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Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by judofyr » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 1:41 PM UTC

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

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by gouranga » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 1:53 PM UTC

Zirro wrote: post #3

andyking wrote: post #2

Didn't this happen last month?

Different statistics-company, different sources. Market-share like this is difficult to measure.

This. I'm surprised that few people take that into consideration.

Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 1:56 PM UTC

judofyr wrote: post #7

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

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Re: Chrome now the most popular browser

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Post by JOfferijns » Sat, Jun 30, 2012, 1:59 PM UTC

It might be noteworthy that Google said so as well on Google I/O.

Of course, they are not the most objective source, but they do have the whole Google Analytics dataset.

(GA runs on about 55% of all websites: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/traffic_analysis/al...)