• Google's Chrome grabs No. 3 browser spot from Safari
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[quote]Google's Chrome overtook Apple's Safari to become the world's third-most popular browser just 16 months after its debut, a Web metrics company said Friday. Internet Explorer (IE), meanwhile, lost almost a full percentage point in December, the latest slip in a decline that accelerated during the second half of 2009. Chrome ended December with a share of 4.63%, according to California-based measurement firm Net Applications. Apple's Safari, which dropped into fourth place for the first time, posted a share of 4.46%. The swap in positions came a month earlier than Computerworld's December prediction, which had been based on a three-month gain-loss trend of the two browsers. Chrome's December increase of 0.7 of a percentage point, the largest since Google launched the browser in September 2008, may have been partly fueled by the release three weeks ago of beta editions for Mac and Linux. Although it fell to the No. 4 spot, Safari didn't stand still last month: It picked up 0.1 of a percentage point. Opera Software's flagship browser also gained ground in December, and accounted for 2.4% of all browsers used in the month, a record for the Norwegian-made program. However, Mozilla's Firefox lost 0.1 of a percentage point, finishing with 24.6%, delaying for at least another month the No. 2 browser's move past the 25% milestone. As has been the trend for years, Microsoft's IE again made the biggest move of any browser: It dropped 0.92 of a percentage point to 62.7%, a new low for the application that once held a share well north of 90%. Even more troubling for Microsoft is IE's quickening decline. IE lost an average of 0.94 of a percentage point in each of the last six months of the year, nearly triple the 0.36 of a point average during the first six months. Notably, the slump came in the face of the availability of IE8, which went final last March, showing that -- at least so far -- Microsoft has been unable to stanch IE's losses. Microsoft continues to make headway in its campaign to convince users to abandon the eight-year-old IE6 for IE8, however. When Net Applications accounts for IE8's "compatibility view" -- a feature that lets users display sites as rendered by the older, and often Web standard-incompatible IE6 and IE7 -- Microsoft's newest browser owned a 23.7% share, compared to IE6's 21% and IE7's 15.5% shares. December marked the first time that IE8 was the most-used Microsoft browser. When the compatibility view data is included, IE8 accounts for 37.8% of Microsoft's total browser usage share. IE6, previously Microsoft's No. 1 edition, fell to the second spot with 33.5% of IE's total.[/quote] All I can say is that I'm glad. Anybody who brings down Apple is a friend of mine. [b]SAUCE + MORE:[/b] [url]http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142958/Google_s_Chrome_grabs_No._3_browser_spot_from_Safari?taxonomyId=1[/url]
this was bound to happen because everybody knows chrome is the best browser
[QUOTE=gReplay;19384548]this was bound to happen because everybody knows chrome is the best browser[/QUOTE] this was bound to happen because everybody knows safari is the worst browser. p.s Chrome is the best.
[QUOTE=gReplay;19384548]this was bound to happen because everybody knows chrome is the best browser[/QUOTE] Chrome is cool (I love how if one page crashes, it dosen't fuck up the whole browser), but I do miss the massive extension support from Firefox.
[QUOTE=gReplay;19384548]this was bound to happen because everybody knows chrome is the best browser[/QUOTE] um no you wanna go i'll take you down in company of heroes or tf2
Firefox is better.
I use Safari. Simply because it's the fastest and because it passes all current internet standards (Acid1, Acid2, and Acid3 tests all perfectly passed.) Rate me box because I know everyone on Facepunch is a mindless Apple-basher.
This is only by one measure. Some measures say Safari is still ahead, some say overtook ages ago. IMO the most accurate measure is [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers]Wikipedia's method[/url] of averaging out many different websites. Either way I'm sure Chrome will overtake Safari very soon.
[QUOTE=Aurora93;19384528]All I can say is that I'm glad. Anybody who brings down Apple is a friend of mine. [/QUOTE] All I can say is you're an idiot, because Chrome wouldn't exist without Apple. Go learn some of the history of WebKit before coming out with shit statements like that. [editline]10:14PM[/editline] Oh, and also. People saying 'safari is worst', etc. Only on Windows, but it's still better than IE.
As far as I'm concerned you can use whatever browser you like as long as it's not IE. IE's continuing trend of losing marketshare gives me a stiffy like you wouldn't believe.
I've recently switched from Firefox to Chrome, and I must say it's much and much better. The "baww no extensions" isn't really an issue anymore. Lots of things are being ported to Chrome currently. I'm not surprised Chrome knocked Safari out of the top 3.
[QUOTE=Ibutsu;19384685]All I can say is you're an idiot, because Chrome wouldn't exist without Apple. Go learn some of the history of WebKit before coming out with shit statements like that. [editline]10:14PM[/editline] Oh, and also. People saying 'safari is worst', etc. Only on Windows, but it's still better than IE.[/QUOTE] Anything is better than IE.
I'm honestly surprised this just [I]now[/I] happened.
[QUOTE=Aurora93;19384745]Anything is better than IE.[/QUOTE] Now respond to my other point.
Chrome is da bomb. Also it's way faster than Firefox. After I switched I was amazed at how much time I had been wasting waiting for Firefox.
I dunno...I'm sticking with firefox ( too lazy to try the others ). A friend of mine is with Chrome and says its awesome...another is with Safari and says he really likes how it looks like and iphone and shit like that ...he's retarded (not sick just stupid). I'll just say ....good luck ?
[QUOTE=Ibutsu;19384779]Now respond to my other point.[/QUOTE] If WebKit didn't exist they would probably have used Gecko or made their own rendering engine
I like Chrome and I can't name anything wrong with it, but something ain't right with that browser. I'm sure I'll switch at some point though, every time Firefox freezes up I think "ffs wouldn't happen with Chrome" Firefox is going multiprocess but not for a year or so.
Did this yesterday... :v: [media]http://up2go.us/static/img/Screen_shot_2010_01_01_at_121243.png[/media] Firefox 3.0 = Camino 2.0
[QUOTE=Ibutsu;19384867]Did this yesterday... :v: [media]http://up2go.us/static/img/Screen_shot_2010_01_01_at_121243.png[/media] Firefox 3.0 = Camino 2.0[/QUOTE] cool
[QUOTE=Ibutsu;19384867]Did this yesterday... :v: [media]http://up2go.us/static/img/Screen_shot_2010_01_01_at_121243.png[/media] Firefox 3.0 = Camino 2.0[/QUOTE] Hmm your computer is weird I do that on mine and chrome is higher than safari.
[QUOTE=sbradford26;19384913]Hmm your computer is weird I do that on mine and chrome is higher than safari.[/QUOTE] You're on Windows. amirite?
[QUOTE=Ibutsu;19385019]You're on Windows. amirite?[/QUOTE] Yeah you on OSX?
[QUOTE=sbradford26;19385073]Yeah you on OSX?[/QUOTE] Obviously, since I said Firefox 3.0 was actually Camino. :v:
anything thats brings apple down is a good thing imo.
[QUOTE=Ibutsu;19385125]Obviously, since I said Firefox 3.0 was actually Camino. :v:[/QUOTE] why the fuck would it say Camino as Firefox Camino is based on the Cocoa framework, Firefox isn't
ITT: People get hardons that a massive media campaign for a browser made it more popular than a browser with 0 marketing.
[QUOTE=Dr Egg;19385436]ITT: People get hardons that a massive media campaign for a browser made it more popular than a browser with 0 marketing.[/QUOTE] Please... put that IE logo away... BLBBUUUURRRRGGGHHH
Anything that raises Google's status is a good thing, in my opinion.
internet explorer 7 deserves too be in the top 3 it's amazing
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