Chrome's first day in the market

[Firefly]

http://blog.statcounter.com/

hmmm

[Nemephosis]

Maybe they should concentrate on sustaining some of those numbers. The only reason it got 1% in one day is because people want to try out the shiny new thing. When they find it lacks features, they'll go back to what they are comfortable with. And when new features are introduced, Chrome will slow down and then it will be just another browser.

[Hans Oberlander]

Why should I trust anything GOOGLE makes given their previous track record on privacy?

[Jackal]

I agree with Neme.

Also, I like my firefox with adblock and scriptblock. Something that IE doesn't have.

Does Chrome have any of those features? Probably not since it's a goggle web browser and goggle relies on advertising and searching.

So would it be contradictory to have an adblock system in a google browser?

[Matfei]

I never roll without ablock and noscript.

Plus I love the download addon I have for Firefox.

[Vitamin-Carrot]

yeah after trying chrome ... FF is for me

[Zxanphorian]

Firefox for life!

[Azura]

Why should I trust anything GOOGLE makes given their previous track record on privacy?

Because you like running around your house without pants on ?

[MonsOlympus]

Wierd, how the hell does the market change that much in a week... Theres a shift of 5% total there for IE, totally dont get that one bit.

Honestly, only time will tell! Still Im unimpressed with the amount of people using IE, it should be faaar less :p

[shoptroll]

What nem said. They have an uphill battle given the fact that IE is firmly entrenched as the majority, and it's taken Firefox years to chip away at usage numbers.

A LOT of people tried Chrome, hit a few sites and then went back to their standard browser for various reasons.

[Hans Oberlander]

Because you like running around your house without pants on ?

Doesn't everyone?

[Azura]

Wierd, how the hell does the market change that much in a week... Theres a shift of 5% total there for IE, totally dont get that one bit.

PC sales. Remember that IE ships with Windows and September is when a lot of students go back to school.

[MonsOlympus]

Yeah that makes sense I guess, I was just shocked that people swapped browsers so frequently. Thing of that is if the market grows with more buyers then ofcoarse IE is going to benefit, I should have realized sooner considering its a %.

For all we know though, it could be say people exiting the market because of a PC dying or being replaced for a bit not another browser taking shares.

I still think its a hard thing to quantify accurately :cool:

[Thrash123]

Good grief, its a beta for Pete's sake :) It isn't going to take 50% of the browser market instantaneously. Firefox was hit with lukewarm reception upon its release - some people loved it, others stuck with the Mozilla Suite (or IE, or Opera, or Safari, or Konqueror, etc..). Once it gets fleshed out more (they have talked about extension support, of course), I'm sure it'll be more of a viable browser (whether it'll sweep the market is a different story).

I doubt they'll say anything like "no adblock". Actually, adblock has legitimate uses beyond just blocking all ads. I use it at work to block ads on our site, so I don't waste our advertisers' impressions when testing things and whatnot.

[Vitamin-Carrot]

Note to self:


Hurt Trash123 for making sence

[Big-Al]

shame that blog does not say what versions of IE are being used.
I'd be curious to find out how many users still use IE 6

[leilei]

chrome requires a specific java runtime that stops my firewall from running
lame

[FireSlash]

Chrome also isn't out for Mac/Linux yet. Alternative browsers do much better on these platforms since the alternatives are Safari and Konqueror. It's just a question of if Chrome can steal people from the FF user base.

[Firefly]

It helps FF that it's in fashion at the moment. If chrome can do that then FF will dip more permanently.

[SlayerDragon]

I HATE CHANGE

NO MORE CHANGE

NO MORE NEW THINGS

RAR

[FlashIV]

shame that blog does not say what versions of IE are being used.
I'd be curious to find out how many users still use IE 6

We still have IE6 where I work

[Continuum]

shame that blog does not say what versions of IE are being used.
I'd be curious to find out how many users still use IE 6

At work ~96% of visitors use IE, 50% of the IE users use IE7 and 49% use IE 6, the other 1% is divided among older versions

[Azura]

Chrome also isn't out for Mac/Linux yet. Alternative browsers do much better on these platforms since the alternatives are Safari and Konqueror. It's just a question of if Chrome can steal people from the FF user base.

Your reply kind of reminds me of when Apple gave the go ahead for Mac compatibles. Instead of eating up PC market share as they hoped the Mac compatibles started to cannibalize Apple's share.