Thursday, September 4th 2008
Google Chrome Claims 1% Market-Share in Just 9 Hours
On September the 3rd, Google released a beta version of its upcoming Chrome web-browser software. The beta was released at 3:02 PM EDT and it captured 0.5% of the browser market share in just 2 hours of release. What's more, by the end of 9 hours since launch, the browser had already captured 1% of the market. Net Applications found that value to fluctuate but the browser currently is looking above the 1% mark. Data was collected studying the browser's ID:
Source:
TG Daily
Official Build 1583The numbers are mind-boggling. Considering there are about 1.46 Billion internet users, 1% should take at least 14 million users to keep that value. In other terms, the number of times Chrome beta may have been downloaded looks threatening to Mozilla. It wouldn't be too far sighted to think Google Chrome could challenge Mozilla's world record when (or if) a stable release does come out (G-Mail is still beta). The browser has received a largely positive response albeit issues concerning its privacy policy, where irregularities were noted. All in all, Google did manage to make heads turn.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
136 Comments on Google Chrome Claims 1% Market-Share in Just 9 Hours
Use your Yahoo mail/search and quit whining about Gmail being beta or some tick boxes during install.
Its money making machine and you should be HAPPY with google producs as they dont FORCE you to install the crappy stuff.
Personally Im going back to IE now because Firefox became a RAM eater and it doesnt work so good as it used to.
Sometimes it even forgets to refresh content when you press F5 and loads your page from before editing CSS for example.
I use firefox for a long time and I believe I started with 256MB ram and I cant imagine Firefox would eat 500mb of ram back then but it does now.
Imho firefox is gonna be eaten by some new lightweight products for now its back to MSIE as I want my memory back.
My girlfriend's dell 600m runs it no problem whereas firefox takes 15-30sec to open Chrome takes 2-3sec, even if the browser absolutely sucked i'd use soley that on her machine for that reasone alone.
Fx3 + AdBlock Plus + Filterset up-to-date: img.techpowerup.org/080905/526.jpg
Note how the ads are in sync with the content of the email (in this case, a Shelfari newsletter).
Google isnt stupid they used ajax to 'quietly' ask user if they want more objects from the server after its been HTML'y generated.
Im almost sure adblocker cant filter AJAX object content as it thinks page is already loaded.
Ajax/js needs more security for a normal user.
woot
Also, can I use the server that gmail uses and direct it to thunderbird?
GMail is scanned for ad purposes by computers as google states, they don't have people read it though it's just collecting a profile of interest for ad delivery.
And while I'm commenting I'd like to point out to the rest that email isn't secure in ANY system/provider/browser, it's travelling through several servers and is totally unencrypted, if you want privacy encrypt it.
I wish companies finally got enough sense to reach half-wittedness so they realised it too and stopped sending tons of stuff you entered on an encrypted site in a confirmation email which is as public as anything and no more secure than a postcard, that kind of stupidity just pisses me off.