george Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Report: Google's Chrome Browser Now The Web's Most Used Browser Google Chrome has been long expected to leapfrog Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) to take its position as the Web’s most used browser and, according to data from Statcounter, the momentous change of leadership happened last week. Statcounter’s findings give Google a double win, after the analytics site found that its mobile browser — Android Robot — had leapfrogged Opera to become the most popular option for mobile-based Web surfers in March. Measuring the Web is an imprecise science, very often based on scaling up small scale measurement surveys, but the gist of Statcounter’s data over the last year indicates that Chrome use is rising of Chrome at the expense of IE and Firefox, regardless of the exact precision of the data. -- thenextweb.com http://thenextweb.co...t-used-browser/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rixalex Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Think that most of us are creatures of habit - i know i am - and for a very long time i wouldn't consider anything other than IE. But somehow Google twisted my arm into giving Chrome ago, and the switch was made. Somebody's back needs patting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullx8 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 that is maybe true for "some websites" but the broad major of websites still has the Number 1 Browser with 40 percent or so as Internet Explorer. its just a amazing but the sad truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klikster Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Some of the Chrome % is probably coming from phones and tablets that had Chrome pre-installed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartender100 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 More popular than Firefox? I doubt that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullx8 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 not even that .. in the mobile sector the iPhone simply puts everything in the very very deep dark ! makes Safari %'s growing not Chrome. well its easy to make up this shit .. since basically nobody does actually have a high traffic site to proof it otherwise ergo: plain advertising .. but well .. anything is better than Firefox on windows or IE Itself .. so if i had a windows machine .. i would be good with Chrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodentwarrior Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I was using Opera, until Chrome was launched. Went straight to Chrome. Works very well. Safari is a Mac program, and now that I use iPhone and iPad, I use it - but frankly Chrome is just better. It's been mentioned that browsers are a habit, but like OS's everybody upgrades eventually. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post WilliaminBKK Posted May 24, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted May 24, 2012 I thought IE was just there for people to download Chrome 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuddhistVirus Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I thought IE was just there for people to download Chrome Spot on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwardandtubs Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Chrome is great, IE is absolutely horrible with all its pointless clicking noises and unresponsiveness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Some of the Chrome % is probably coming from phones and tablets that had Chrome pre-installed AFAIK Chrome is only available for Android 4. Most mobiles use a Webkit based browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunron13 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I switched from IE to Chrome at work and from Safari to Chrome at home. A much more stable platform and another satisfied customer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hml367 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 (edited) I have tried most of the other browsers besides IE. I have always come back to IE. I keep a current copy of Nightly also just in case. IE does take some tweaks to run best for each users style and I have found the those tweaks are all available in settings for IE. MSPain Edited May 25, 2012 by hml367 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I switched to Chrome when it first appeared and found it to be a very satisfying experience. The only time I have used FF since, is if I got an incompatible browser message on some sites, and the only time I have used IE is if I got that message in FF too. And that hasn't happened in a dogs age now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyL Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Wow! I am very surprised that SRW Iron has not been mentioned yet. It's based on Chromium (like Google Chrome), but it does not spy your online activity like Google Chrome (partly) does. Have a look at this webpage comparing both browsers: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php Opera is also a very decent browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamypoko Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I find ChromePlus even more user friendly (but still have Chrome as a backup) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Chrome is good But the article lost all credibility at the mobile browsing part, as 75% of all mobile browsing is from iOS (mobile safari) and 95% of tablet traffic is ipads. Declaring Chrome the "winner" in mobile is just silly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whybother Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Chrome is good But the article lost all credibility at the mobile browsing part, as 75% of all mobile browsing is from iOS (mobile safari) and 95% of tablet traffic is ipads. Declaring Chrome the "winner" in mobile is just silly "75% of all mobile browsing is from iOS (mobile safari) and 95% of tablet traffic is ipads." Links please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullx8 Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Chrome is good But the article lost all credibility at the mobile browsing part, as 75% of all mobile browsing is from iOS (mobile safari) and 95% of tablet traffic is ipads. Declaring Chrome the "winner" in mobile is just silly exactly .. this is just marketing ! very far away from the truth. IE is still number 1 Browser with over 40% and the mobile part is just like you said. opera is totally dead meet. chrome just the 3rd choice. but i really surprised about this since FF has became just the same nightmare as the IE already is. Chrome should have ran over FF a long time already, but well it doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whybother Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Chrome (32.76%) overtakes IE (31.94%). http://www.pcworld.com/article/255886/google_chrome_overtakes_internet_explorer.html Top 9 mobile browsers: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/05/androids-now-on-top-for-mobile-browsing-and-search-but-still-a-challenger-elsewhere/ http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201104-201204 But, interestingly: http://gigaom.com/2011/12/30/mobile-users-lean-toward-apps-over-browsers/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelepulse Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 All surfing habits and what not being sent directly to Google for data mining purposes when using Chrome. If you're OK with it, so is Google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuketrichard Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 (edited) according to the stats i get for the various merchants i run affiliate programs for and my sites i would say this is a bold faced marketing lie, IE comes out more than 60% firefox around 20% with chrome accounting for less than 10% of total as far as mobile browsers , i would have no idea Edited May 27, 2012 by phuketrichard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamhc Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 More popular than Firefox? I doubt that I still use Firefox, even though every bit of software I seem to download, pushes Chrome, with an OPT-OUT checkbox, not opt-in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullx8 Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Chrome (32.76%) overtakes IE (31.94%). not on my watch (report from last 2 weeks, just generated a few min ago) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whybother Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Chrome (32.76%) overtakes IE (31.94%). not on my watch (report from last 2 weeks, just generated a few min ago) I suppose it would depend on the types of users that download alternative browsers and the types of users that go to your website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nullx8 Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 I suppose it would depend on the types of users that download alternative browsers and the types of users that go to your website. yes .. thats exactly my point. news like this have just zero value, except for the advertisements if you need something to be "better" just crop the sites where "alternate peoples" hanging around but honestly .. symbian on top .. i think that was the case in 2006 but its 2012 now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 I suppose it would depend on the types of users that download alternative browsers and the types of users that go to your website. Yep. This is a site that shows global sites they monitor. W3Counter This report was generated 04/30/2012 based on the last 15,000 page views to each website tracked by W3Counter. W3Counter's sample currently includes 57,177 websites. The browser market share graph includes data from all versions of the named browser families, not only the top 10 as listed below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whybother Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 I suppose it would depend on the types of users that download alternative browsers and the types of users that go to your website. yes .. thats exactly my point. news like this have just zero value, except for the advertisements if you need something to be "better" just crop the sites where "alternate peoples" hanging around but honestly .. symbian on top .. i think that was the case in 2006 but its 2012 now. You are comparing browsers visiting your individual site to independent statistics sites that are gathering stats on global usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasteddie Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Chrome does more spying than an elint trawler! Firefox for me, I.E. when I have to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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