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Chrome Passes 25% Market Share, IE and Firefox Slip

Posted by timothy on from the none-of-them-are-perfect dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In April 2015, we saw the naming of Microsoft Edge, the release of Chrome 42, and the first full month of Firefox 37 availability. Now we're learning that Google's browser has finally passed the 25 percent market share mark. Hit the link for some probably unnecessarily fine-grained statistics on recent browser trends. Have your browser habits shifted recently? Which browsers do you use most often?

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  1. Re:Chrome - the web browser that's added as bloatw by narcc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've seen it included with CCleaner and Avast. It's a plague.

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  2. Re:bad statistics by Solandri · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe because Net Applications is the only counter that tries to correct for known skewed sampling.

    They have to correct for skewed sampling because their sample size is so small, especially for non-U.S. sites. Of the big metrics sites:

    StatCounter monitors over 3 million sites (reports page hits)
    W3Counter monitors over 70,000 sites (reports unique visitors per month)
    Net Applications monitors over 40,000 sites (reports unique visitors per month)

    Net Applications is the only one which reports IE still in the lead. Which given the sample sizes I think more calls into question their correcting algorithms than it does StatCounter's sample.

  3. Re: Chrome - the web browser that's added as bloat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most nerds have 2 parents

  4. Re:Chrome - the web browser that's added as bloatw by Dog-Cow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Forgive them for being pragmatic instead of dogmatic. Forgive them for using a perfectly good browser that's preinstalled instead of wading into some obscure nerd-war against Microsoft. In other words, forgive them for being normal people.

  5. Re:Chrome - the web browser that's added as bloatw by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's also often a corporate standard, especially for companies and their clients with older, Windows specific software tools. And many proxies are configured to lie about the web client they are proxying for, in order to provide access to upstream websites which demand IE. There are many examples, such as:

            http://unix.stackexchange.com/...

  6. Re:Firefox by tompaulco · · Score: 5, Funny

    CSS defines 1px not as a hardware pixel but as 1/2688 of the distance from the eye to the display

    I just tested this on my system and it didn't work. I backed off from the display about 5 feet and the font did not change at all.

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