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Chrome Beats Internet Explorer On Any Given Sunday

Posted by timothy on from the don't-let-lumberg-find-out dept.

tsamsoniw writes "Over the past three weeks, Chrome has beaten out Internet Explorer as the No. 1 browser in the world — but only on Sundays. In fact, according to data from StatCounter, Chrome usage is higher on weekends than it is during the work week, whereas IE usage drops on Saturdays and Sundays. Evidently, end-users prefer Chrome at home, which might be helping the browser get a foothold at work." (So apparently it's not just a freak occurrence.)

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  1. Re:Chrome vs IE by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not bad considering Microsoft pushes IE to end-users via it being pre-installed on their operating system...

  2. Inflated Chrome stats because of page prerendering by Giorgio+Maone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does StatCounter take in account Chrome's page views inflation caused by its Instant Pages prerendering feature?

    I'd be surprised, since even Google Analytics itself is affected...

    Anyway, please be careful before announcing "Chrome usage surpassed this or that" :P

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  3. Have you considered Chrome is just 'better'? by goldcd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I know why I originally switched from FF/IE (work) - Chrome was noticeably faster. Not in some "I've checked the benchmarks" kind of way, in the "I've installed it and this is clearly faster and more pleasurable to use."
    After the initial speed thing, it was the UI that's kept me. Dragging tabs to windows, pinning tabs, scrolling tabs, bookmark sync, add-on/app sync, background update etc etc. Also simply installing Chrome on a new machine, simply giving it my google login and the Chrome that appears on the new desktop immediately resembling the version on my home machine.
    Reading through the above, it's probably the background update that was the killer bit. I genuinely have no idea what version of Chrome I'm currently running. I installed it years ago and it's just been there ever since. My entirely subjective opinion is that the features and improvements silently appear before I ever even realized I need them - so I remain 'happy' and 'content' (and would have to see some utterly novel, ground-breaking feature advertised on another browser to even bother to download it)
    By auto-update I don't mean like thunderbird or itunes, where an attempt to launch it suddenly triggers update popups, delays and release notes. I mean I don't even know it's happened. If this approach could just be extended to OS, drivers as well as apps, I'd be happy as Larry.

  4. Re:Chrome vs IE by Haedrian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Beat me too it. I'm still using Firefox 4, but it's ridiculous I can't run it on a 1/3rd gig laptop without having to reboot firefox every hour (memory leak). .

    So you're complaining that an old version has a bug which they fixed in the future?

    Update.