Google Chrome Displaces Safari As Third In Survey

Azureflare writes "According to a Net Applications survey, Google Chrome has replaced Apple's Safari as the number-three browser. This may be partially explained by the release of the Chrome beta on Mac and Linux, but may also be due to users jumping ship from IE. More analysis on this topic can be found at ComputerWorld. As anecdotal evidence of Google Chrome usage gaining steam, Bank of America has apparently recently added Google Chrome to their list of officially supported browsers."

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Was waiting for Chrome on OSX until...

[juuri]

... the AD deluge started. Seriously, google, do I need to see on every one
of your sites your insipid little ADs pushing me to use your browser on OSX
now?

Congrats on having the same sort of doughbagery advertising we've come
to expect from Microsoft and Apple, do you feel like you really belong now?
That we really, really like you now?
 

Re:Was waiting for Chrome on OSX until...

[Ethanol-fueled]

Sure, they're a big mega-evil corporation. Their mission is to get inside our heads and sell ads. But their success could be attributed to much more than savvy PR guys with headphones and rollerblades.

Unlike the others, Google actually innovates. Takes risks. Some ideas flop, others are hugely successful. Microsoft and Yahoo just keep turning out the same old shit because they are inert and unwilling to innovate. Sure, they add a feature to widget X or rebrand widget Y, but they have not created any new services. Microsoft in particular is puzzlingly suicidal -- the Zune, and that horrible ad campaign (thanks for wiggling your ass in my face, Bill, we know you have gazillions of dollars).

Most importantly, Google don't get greedy. For example, the ads in the middle of youtube videos. You can see when an ad will pop up and you can even skip past it if you want -- try doing that with pre-clip commercials on CNN.com. Google don't force you to do anything like the other companies do. They don't shove banner ads in your face when using MSN messenger. Google are huge, but they don't project greed. Google succeeds because it does not project control and does not try to strong-arm the user. Google lets the user come to it and use it on the user's own terms, and that happens with clever and seamless integration of its ads into other services. What Google does not try to do is strong-arm the user into using its shit by honking a clown horn in his/her face. That said, I'll never use Chrome. FF, Opera, and derivatives all the way.

Re:Was waiting for Chrome on OSX until...

[twoHats]

Fail - Both Apple and Google have failed miserably. Apple more than Google. I believe that Google has produced some rally great and innovate ideas that have helped keep the flow of tech workers moving. The evil is really relative with them (C H I N A). With Apple things are definitely more rotten. This is the snake medicine / revival tent kind of evil. The kind that promises salvation, while delivering the same old crap. oops - sorry ...

Re:Chrome

[dangitman]

From the StatCounter website:

"Stats are based on aggregate data collected by StatCounter on a sample exceeding 5 billion pageviews per month collected from across the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites. "

Doesn't sound like a particularly reliable source of data to me.

Jumping ship from IE?

[tgd]

I'm not sure I know anyone who uses IE who even knows that Chrome exists.

I'd be willing to bet its almost entirely loss of Firefox users (like myself), as Firefox has become a bloated, buggy, slow pile of crap that would make IE6 proud.

Re:Chrome

[sopssa]

It does sound a bit more reliable than Net Applications tho, "which the company says encompasses data from some 160 million users per month.". Thats 31x larger source for data.

Re:Getting off the train to crazytown

[Zocalo]

It's on the homepage of Amazon's UK site, and I've seen a few of the billboard ads outside of London as well, but the core focus in the UK definitely seems to have been on London over the last few weeks. The level of advertising on the London Underground is pretty much at saturation level, I'd say.

And yet...

[AnswerIs42]

I still have to start up Opera or FireFox because I have too many sites I visit that just do not work in chrome.

But yet, for a netbook, Chrome is the best choice because it uses the smallest amount of real estate for non-browser window information.

This thread is quite remarkable.

[symbolset]

If I had posted this comment - no matter how deep - on slashdot a year ago, there would be several dissenting replies both from ACs and signed in users of various UID ages (but mostly new ones), and then subcomments supporting the dissenting views. I would have used their ignorance to amplify my message with dozens of applicable links and so in the view of search engines amplify the importance of those links. I would have been motivated to do so by the challenge presented. The idiots would have continued to argue and let me post rebuttals with links for weeks, to the detriment of their message in favor of mine. But now there's not any of that. It would have been modded down first before the mods rescued it from obscurity and metamodded the downmods until the people who had downmodded it could no longer moderate.

Now with the new year it's a frist spot and there's not a dissenting opinion to be had, downmods are conspicuously absent.

I can only surmise that the MS Bangalore blog center has a new boss, and she/he is effective, or they've fired them all for negative competence. We should be aware of this and be prepared to thwart their new strategies.

Nominal contextual comment to invalidate "off topic" moderation: Yeah, "standards based" is gaining value in all fields, especially software. People are starting to understand in 2010 the only reason why your new stuff doesn't work with your old stuff is that you forgot to read on the package that the vendor would prefer you only use their stuff.