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Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-no-mac-version dept.

holy_calamity writes "After launching in a blaze of publicity that even warmed Slashdot, Google's browser grabbed a 3% share of the market, but has been slipping ever since, and now accounts for 1.5%. Google has also stopped promoting the browser on its search page. Assuming they wanted it to grab a significant share of the browser market, have they dropped the ball, or is this part of the plan?" On Slashdot, Chrome is still the #4 browser (after FF, IE, and Safari) but it was ahead of Safari for a few days, hitting almost 10% of our traffic.

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  1. Re:I thought it was in beta by tomhudson · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The fact that people are still using it regularly despite it being beta should say something at least.

    It says people are stupid. Like the 24% who are still using IE 6. Or Windows, for that matter - people with more money than brains :-/

    BTW, on a side note, the motivation to use linux should not be to save money - that's just one of the beneficial side effects.

  2. Firefox Is A Piece Of Garbage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You 'went back to Firefox'???

    LOL! You have to be joking...right?

    Chrome has been running non-stop since the morning it came out on my machine with only one quit and restart to update. Chrome utterly annihilates Firefox in performance and speed.

    Having to quit out of Firefox two to three times a day just because the shitty codebase is still fully of memory leaks and even worse leftover Javascript crap is a unacceptable.

    Chrome has been running right now for at least three weeks and it is still as lighting quick and responsive as it was the moment it started up. The upgrade to Chrome is like the same amazing feeling it was to leave behind cooperative multitasking and single address space OSes for preemptive multithreading with protected memory OSes. Firefox isn't ever going to be fixed the outdated codebase will never be able to be modernized to support threading across tabs and complete memory protection for every tab.

    Listening to people still clinging to the stinking pile of garbage that is Firefox is like listening to people still clinging to IE years ago. You just have to shake you head at how pathetically clingy people are to crap they are use to.

    Dumping Firefox for Chrome is just as an amazing feeling as dumping IE.

  3. Re:I know why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I booted up windows to see what all the fuss was about, then went right back to linux. Let me know when they have a package in the ubuntu repository.

    That's funny. I did the same with Linux and went right back to Windows.

    Geez... how the hell did the parent comment get modded insightful? What great insight was conveyed? Okay, so we heard anecdotal evidence that the AC tried it out (no insight there) and requested notification when a package is available. Unless you provide a means of contacting you, "let me know" is simply trolling.