In what place by market share will Google's new browser Chrome be for Aug 09?

http://books.google.com/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYC&printsec=frontcover#PPA1,M1

This is the comic that introduced Chrome.

I just downloaded it. It kicks IE and FF's ass. And it's Beta. WOW.

http://www.shoutwire.com/comments/190368/Google_Chrome_Download_Link.html

45% chance in first place ahead of IE?!?!

Hubdub is clearly showing a "tech-early-adopter" bias.

/me makes more purchases of the rest of the contracts =D

I gotta say that so far chrome is fast and easy.

It looks better than IE and FF. It's faster. It imported everything without a single problem and I like it better. Why not better than IE - I've already just dumped FF.

It's fast and easy and if one of the tabs crashes it just crashes that one tab... not all of em.

When I hit a new link I've never seen a browser open faster. Amazing speed.

Did you notice that the default search engine is culi and not Google.

I really cannot see any browser overtaking internet explorer, given that many people are not even aware that they have a choice. it toom me a good ten minutes to convince my father that there was actually another browser out there other than internet explorer, he thought it was like windows explorer and could not be supplanted.

They claim that apps can be written, taking advantage of some communication between tabs (frames, in a previous incarnation).
In a W3C ( http://www.w3c.org ) compliant browser, sibling frames could not communicate with each other, unless the parent window.document specifically allows access to it's functions. This could still be a mess in disquise. I'm going to hang low and test against some hefty javascript. I'll let you know what I find, if anything, interesting.

Well, in just a few minutes, using different, but standard display settings, here some initial findings ...

Google's Chrome may sound sexy, but ...
The current rendering engine is not compliant with w3c specification. (Easy javascript image manipulation is not even close).
The CSS style "position:absolute" is totally helpless. Once again, it does comply, and therefore, many new sites don't look so good anymore.
For some reason, getting a 'handle' on document objects does not seem as clean as it should.

However, and this may blow you away, but more than likely not ...


I ran the same test on MSIE 8 beta, and the results, while similar in nature, were not as profound.

Note: The series of tests were passed on MSIE 7, and the latest versions of Flock, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Safari, and 4 other browsers.

So, the waiting game begins.
;)

I'm visiting this page on chrome! Within 5 minutes of downloading it i decided that i no longer needed Mozzila so i uninstalled it. However there have been a few bugs with my email since i used it. I think that its a tie between IE and Chrome. Not to mention the glitches it has with clicking. Still its only a beta

fyi: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/03/lehman-googles-chrome-can-catch-up-to-firefox-in-two-years/

Be careful about the privacy if you are going to use it:

http://news.google.com.tr/news?as_q=chrome+privacy&svnum=10&as_scoring=r&as_drrb=b&as_mind=3&as_minm=9&as_maxd=4&as_maxm=9&as_occt=any&aq=f

By default, it sends a lot of information back to Google about your browsing habits.

Google Analytics is saying 2% so far, putting it in 4th. That seems like a biased sample, though:

http://www.betanews.com/article/Google_Analytics_starts_tracking_Chrome_with_intriguing_results/1220642170

I don't think it will overtake IE because of the majority who just use what they are given. So the real question is: will it overtake Firefox to become second? I use Chrome all the time now I think it's cleaner and faster than Firefox so on today's evidence I would expect it to go second. But Firefox may improve before Aug and a privacy scare with Chrome would dent its chances. Who knows?

I really like chrome but am waiting for it to leave beta. I'm still using Firefox 2, and quite content until i hear chrome is out of Beta testing (I've been burned as an early adopter before... vista <_<).

Net Applications' December 2008 Web Browser Stats:

Microsoft Internet Explorer: 68.15% (vs. MAY 2006: 84.20%)
Mozilla Firefox: 21.34% (vs. MAY 2006: 10.55%)
Apple Safari: 7.93% (vs. MAY 2006: 3.26%)
Google Chrome: 1.04%
Opera: 0.71%

Man, I really thought Google was going to roll out some deal with a PC maker to have it preinstalled on new machines by now. Bet Third thinking a few months of PC sales would get it above 7%. Le sigh.

@gobbergo - be sure to see a question on that exact topic - http://www.hubdub.com/m23134/Will_Googles_Chrome_Browser_come_preinstalled_on_a_PC_by_June_30th_2009

If Google doesn't get it on a PC and shipping by June...there's little chance for a third place finish (I too had a lot of early bets on third place...being the web's most popular site does give them the ability to attract a lot of new users!)

Hitslink changed the way they calculate these shares, which makes safari look worse and chrome much better!

However, it seems crazy to me that Chrome can narrow a gap of over 1% in the next month when they barely did 3% points over the last year.

Alrighty - time to settle.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 66.97%
Firefox 22.98%
Safari 4.07%
Chrome 2.84%
Opera 2.04%
Netscape 0.49%