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WSJ: Chrome Browser Now at 7.24% Market Share
Posted on 08. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Google’s Chrome browser worldwide share is now at 7.24%. This is impressive to consider since Chrome was launched in September of 2008 and has blazed through versions and innovative features with new releases, currently at version 5.
The question at hand, now that Chrome is at number three of all browsers, is if it can challenge Firefox. NetApplications, the source for the Wall Street Journal Data, puts Firefox in second place to Internet Explorer at 23.81%. In an interview with Gizmodo, Mozilla Open Source Evangelist Christopher Blizzard said that the threat of Chrome overtaking Firefox does not seem to be one of his concerns. In fact, he believes that the fact Mozilla focuses solely on the browser will give his organization competitive advantage.
“What we’re gonna have, I think, with Firefox 4 is that we’re gonna have a Javascript engine that’s a generation ahead of everybody else, which will be pretty interesting. We’re the only one that makes browsers! We don’t sell ads, we don’t make operating systems. We don’t sell hardware. We just make browsers,” Blizzard told Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanon.
And in terms of competing directly against Google, “As long as we stand behind the technology that we have, and continue to improve and invest in it as a mechanism for getting the larger goals done, we’re gonna be fine. I’m not that worried about competing with them.”
That’s good to hear Mozilla has no qualms going up against Chrome. It will be for the best, in the long run, for there to be competing web browsers pushing technology forward – more like web platforms than browsers at this point actually. Firefox’s beta releases of version 4 have shown that they aren’t a afraid of taking something in Chrome and making it a feature in their browser to remain a worthy rival. Anyways, remember when it was only Microsoft that dominated the browser market? It was a black hole in terms of web innovation. Plus IE was hacked a lot, not really a fun time to remember.
By the way, NetApplications by all accounts must be the authority on browser share. In the past, there have been disputes over the validity of calculating browser share worldwide, but major publications seem to quote NetApplications most often in browser research.
thechromesource Daily: Links for 5/25/10
Posted on 25. May, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
There is now a browser add-on for IE, Chrome and Firefox that allows people to opt-out of Google’s Analytics tracking.
The Mac and Linux versions of Chrome browser are catching up to Windows; it was announced today that they have now moved to stable release.
Google Wave has been moved into the Google Apps suite of software for organizations, moving it out of its experimental stage in Labs.
Here’s a look at the challenges that Google TV faces when it enters the market this fall in the U.S. on DISH Network.
Intel will be showing off dedicated chips specifically for tablets at Computex, which starts next week.
Google Search Gets Interactive With Google Gravity
Posted on 23. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 2 Comments
Ah, the old days of static web pages. I think that they are really starting to disappear, sliding into a slow extinction. Kind of like payphones. Or newspapers. Case in point would be Google Gravity:
Sure, you’re thinking it’s totally worthless. But but then again, maybe not. This just shows what you can do with some Javascript in a new generation of browsers. And in the future, HTML 5 will be the engine for this type of stuff. You can play with this yourself, search all you want. But don’t try using Internet Explorer, because when I surfed over to Google Gravity with IE7 I got this:
Although that shouldn’t happen in an IE7 window using Chrome Frame, if the developer were to have it enabled in his code.
Google: Let’s Piss Off Microsoft with Chrome Frame
Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 5 Comments
OK, so sometimes I’m behind the times, but I just discovered this little project Google has been working on called Chrome Frame. Basically it’s an add-in to Internet Explorer that allows it to run newer web technologies such as HTML5 if a developer puts in a line that triggers it within their code. This includes the Chrome browser’s V8 Javascript kit that allows for faster performance, support for newer CSS formats and offline storage functions that are starting to be seen in Google applications such as Gmail.
We all know that Internet Explorer has become a slow and cumbersome behemoth, and for those who are unable to install Chrome browser on a managed machine this is a simple fix for that as you can easily download a small executable and then run it. It would also be useful for developers who need to test different browser versions in one application as well. Chrome Frame works with IE 6, 7 and 8. Here is a video from Google:
Although released under the auspices of development, this kind of stuff must really irritate Microsoft and when this was first announced last September they issued a statement that using Chrome Frame may have security implications, but Google later released a patch that allayed those concerns.
Anything from the positive department for Microsoft? Looks like Bing is making headways in search. Must be all those ads on television. Too bad I make my own decisions.
