Monday, January 2nd 2012
Google Chrome will Overtake Internet Explorer in 2012: StatCounter
After overtaking Mozilla Firefox in terms of web-browser market-share in December 2011, Google Chrome has its eyes trained on Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE), still the most popular web-browser in use today. According to the most recent StatCounter figures, at the rate at which Google Chrome's market-share is growing, it will overtake that of MSIE in 2012. It will do that as early as in June-July. Interestingly, Google Chrome is the youngest web-browser among its competitors, launched in Q4 2008, but has surpassed the market shares of much older competitors in a matter of months. Apart from stats, Google's web-advertising prowess makes Chrome's MSIE overtake in June-July seem realistic.
Source:
Pocket-lint
47 Comments on Google Chrome will Overtake Internet Explorer in 2012: StatCounter
when opening a new taband enable the home button options just below :slap:www.macstories.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Google-Chrome-Settings.png
FF= Normal use:rockout:
Chrome=Pron :p
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Anyways i use opera just becuase i can change the UI to be just the way i like it without having to go out and find add-on/plug-ins to do so. Performance means nothing at this point all of it is fast and security come 80% from the user not clicking yes to everything.
This is coming from a guy who used Chrome last just yesterday, and I own two Androids, and I use Gmail and YouTube. It's a terrible browser. I can't wait until Firefox stop wasting their time on the version number thing they're doing and take the lead back again.
The main problem I had with chrome however was that every tab in chrome started a new process, which meant that if I had tons of tabs up while running a game, the game-process would get very low priority because it was fighting against 20+ processes from chrome. This was a while ago tho, is chrome still using a new process for every tab?
And unless you main language is not english (which I apologise in advance if it isn't) would you please learn how to operate full stops. Wow. Wow. Wow. "no add-ons whatsoever." Wow.
So many n00bs. "BUUURRRRRR WHERE ARE ALL TEH BUTTONS? WHY IS IT BLUE? WHERES MY PANTS?"
Here's a screenshot of my 'non customisable, no add ons' Chrome.
Reason was my isp was slowly murdering my connection and so at first I suspected the browser since I recently tried IE9. It does seem to run smoother tho but nothing to write home about.
To me Google Chrome is like an Iphone even tho I hate apple; at the time the Iphone came out I liked it bc it worked smooth and was user friendly(seemed to have less bugs and more features I could see myself using than the competition).
When you have a good product people will buy it simple as that.
IE9 seems to be way overdone with hype. It made it seem like going to IE9 would transcend my internet "experience" with all this smoothed out visual crap. Only feature I cared about was the APP with my GPU's but I didn't notice any performance increase.
The google browser is laid out simple and the features it does have are noticeable. Namely the search engine integration into the address bar once I type in enough characters I can choose between going to the web address or a google search hit.
Integrated Webpage Translation.
Seems to play nice with my anti-virus.
Things I can think of atm chrome needs to do:
-Put the fav/"bookmark" bar up be default instead of me having to enable it.
-Put a history button in the fav bar
-Alternatively make little icons for them and shorten the address bar instead of making a new bar.
-Change the way it handles files I download. That is one thing I liked about IE9 was the little gui that showed up and gave me the options/shortcuts strait into windows explorer.
edit: I have heard talks of security issues. I also know I can get to the history by the little wrench...would like a dedicated button tho.
OOZMAN: After seeing your screenie....looking for addons now. :)
But I do have all the major browsers installed. IE, FF, Chrome, OPERA
Why Google hasn't added this as a standard feature is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay beyond me...I've been using that drop down since Netscape and so has everyone else FFS!