Chrome Now at 25% Market Share, IE Down to 40%

[Guest]

Chrome's October market share result is just shy of having met the 25 percent milestone in what appears to be an accelerating pace of growth.

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[reggieray]

IE, the browser that MS tied directly to their kernel to give the FEDS a back door to their OS.

 

[billybobser]

Still no response about no-script's effect on these numbers.

I think all this suggest is that Chrome advertising is working well.

Whereas Firefox tended to be spread by recommendation and quality.

 

[house70]

"Apple's Safari climbed by 0.33 points"

Lol....

 

[STravis]

Ever try to uninstall Chrome? Apparently it refuses to allow other browsers to become the default (including IE)...Google it.

 

[STravis]

[citation][nom]house70[/nom]"Apple's Safari climbed by 0.33 points"Lol....[/citation]

Firefox lost 0.4 points... yeah those numbers are pretty silly. I wonder if Apple really gives a shit that their browser isn't climbing in numbers?

 

[hoof_hearted]

Tons of XP users still out there. I just recently updated an XP laptop and I tried IE9,8, and 7 and all of them crashed when trying to start. Downloaded Chrome and Firefox and both ran flawless.

 

[Goldengoose]

When is the next browser grand prix? Anyone know?

 

[icepick314]

I don't get this metric data...

I'm guessing this does not put into account for mobile browsers since there are TONS of iDevices using Safari but only seen 0.33 point growth with sitting at just under 6% share...

do we have usage data for mobile browsers yet?

 

[Guest]

windows 8 is microsoft chance to take the market over again, if they put the next IE on the windows 8. and actualy integrate it perfectly with microsoft network, with the windows mobile etc... then they might just take it all back, but like i said its a chance, they can loose it...

 

[thrasher32]

meh.

 

[velocityg4]

It's not surprising seeing as to how much Google pushes Chrome. Seems like a lot of freeware programs when being installed also install Chrome. Because the install Google Chrome checkmark is automatically checked when running the installer along with making it the default browser. While the average user is far too scared to customize any settings when installing software for fear of screwing everything up.

Then they click the links on their desktop saying e-mail, yahoo, google, work, &c. Chrome opens up and they start using the new browser. Many not even realizing they switched browsers or what a browser actually is. Just that they click this icon on their desktop that the nice guy from their ISP put their that goes directly to their e-mail.

While Firefox users had to actually want a new browser. Search for it then install it.

I'm not saying all Chrome users don't know what they are doing. Just that this scenario seems likely. Given how it is largely displacing IE users. With just a very small drift of Firefox users.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Firefox is still faster!

 

[claydavis]

Chrome usage is increasing terribly during these years. I personally use chrome for Browsing.

 

[gio2vanni86]

Since BF3 uses a browser for the game, i believe browser's need to become less of a memory hog. I don't like how chrome has like 4-6 processes in the taskbar. Really annoying, and the fact each one takes about 50mb's is even more annoying, like really 50mb's. Where are the days where things would take 1-10mb's or even KB's. Makes me feel like 4gb's is useless these days, and in reality you need 8GB's plus. Just my opinion sorry if i vented a bit. =D

 

[gio2vanni86]

Not that i want double post, but seriously i got 4 tabs on one browser and that takes 8 process's with 380mb's for all of them, seriously. Can anyone here who uses firefox tell me if it uses just as much or less?

 

[huron]

[citation][nom]hoof_hearted[/nom]Tons of XP users still out there. I just recently updated an XP laptop and I tried IE9,8, and 7 and all of them crashed when trying to start. Downloaded Chrome and Firefox and both ran flawless.[/citation]

I didn't think that IE9 would run on XP...how'd you make that happen?

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]huron[/nom]I didn't think that IE9 would run on XP...how'd you make that happen?[/citation]
He's talking out his ass

 

[beardguy]

I only use IE when I am forced at work in order to use certain internal applications. Every time I open IE, my first thought is always "damn this is slow compared to Chrome".

Speed is everything to me. I could care less about plugins or anything else. Just give me a fast browser that renders all sites well and doesn't crash.

 

[hoofhearted]

The automatic update prompted me for it.

[citation][nom]huron[/nom]I didn't think that IE9 would run on XP...how'd you make that happen?[/citation]

 

[makaveli316]

With Chrome you don't have an option to change temp files and cache folder, which is ridiculous.
I know you can adjust the .exe shortcut with a command, but still sucks, cause when i click on the Gmail Counter Gadger for example, that command isn't valid.
This for me it's a big enough reason to prefer Firefox.

 

[ta152h]

While no one doubts Microsoft is a rotting corpse, being eaten by Google, Apple and now even OpenOffice, their level of decomposition and consumption varies.

The numbers from RealTimeStats is somewhat different.

Chrome is at 16.59%, IE at 49.58%, Safari at 8.54%. The trend is very similar, showing big games for Google and pretty good gains for Apple, while Microsoft lost a lot.

The scary part for Microsoft has to be Safari, since that means they keep losing share in the operating system market as well.

 

[rustyd79]

Using Chrome now...
I have to agree with gio2vanni86 about the number of processes. I was a die-hard firefox user until the release (version 7 or 8 I believe) started doing the multi-process thing.
I absolutely can't stand seeing up to, literally, 20 browser processes running when I have like 3 tabs open. If they fixed that, I would click the FF d/l button again so fast my finger would get windburn!
Chrome seems decent and and only use IE as needed but think, as 'beardguy' said, "damn this is slow compared to Chrome".

 

[rustyd79]

(mis-typed the FF version above - but you all probably know which one it was if you use FF)

 

[vaughn2k]

[citation][nom]hoof_hearted[/nom]Tons of XP users still out there. I just recently updated an XP laptop and I tried IE9,8, and 7 and all of them crashed when trying to start. Downloaded Chrome and Firefox and both ran flawless.[/citation]
I think what he's trying to say is there are lots of eXPerienced users out there eXPeriencing crashes on XP laptops using IE9, 8 and 7...