
In what place by market share will Google's new browser Chrome be for Aug 09?
Currently (August 2008) the market share for browsers is : MS IE (72.15%), Firefox (19.73%), Safari (6.37%), Opera (0.74%), Mozilla (0.10%) and other assorted browsers (0.17%). http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0
Is Chrome the IE beater? Will it shame Firefox? What position in market share (high to low) will the Chrome browser have a year from launch? [using figures from http://marketshare.hitslink.com]
This will settle based on the August 2009 figures released on Sept 1 2009.
Settlement details:As reported by http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0 for August 2009 on Sept 1, 2009.
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Suspend date: Tue 25th Aug 3:59pm PST
Settlement date: Tue 8th Sep 4:36am PST
Prediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Tue 25th Aug 3:59pm PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
Initial likelihoods: First (better than even IE): 1%, Second: 7%, Third: 13%, Fourth: 21%, Fifth: 24%, Sixth: 19%, Seventh or lower OR not available OR tied: 15%
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Suspend date: Tue 25th Aug 3:59pm PST
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This is the comic that introduced Chrome.
http://www.shoutwire.com/comments/190368/Google_Chrome_Download_Link.html
Hubdub is clearly showing a "tech-early-adopter" bias.
/me makes more purchases of the rest of the contracts =D
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.
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.
;)
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.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Google_Analytics_starts_tracking_Chrome_with_intriguing_results/1220642170
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%
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!)
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.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 66.97%
Firefox 22.98%
Safari 4.07%
Chrome 2.84%
Opera 2.04%
Netscape 0.49%
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