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Is this desktop-only, or does it also count the Chrome browser on Android? If the latter, this could go a long way towards explaining Chrome's meteoric rise re

Is this desktop-only, or does it also count the Chrome browser on Android? If the latter, this could go a long way towards explaining Chrome's meteoric rise relative to FF and IE, which lack mobile presence.

contol-m 15y ago
The Android browser is not Chrome or Chrome-based.
- redthrowaway 15y ago
  I'm stunned, but I just looked into it and you're right. Oddly enough, it's actually Safari: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 0.5; en-us) AppleWebKit/522+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3 http://www.infinitezest.com/articles/which-web-browser-is-used-in-android.aspx http://www.infinitezest.com/articles/which-web-browser-is-us... edit: Downvotes ahoy! I'm just relaying the information I found when searching. On the Anroid-DLS wiki, it gives a very generic "based on webkit" answer, so that doesn't say much one way or t'other. http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Android_FAQ#Q:_What_browser_does_Android_ship_with.3F http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Android_FAQ#Q:_W...
  - drivebyacct2 15y ago
    It's WebKit, but so is Chrome. "Safari" is merely in the user-agent string for mobile website compatibility. Nothing about it is really Safari related. Chrome will be coming to Android soon as per the notes made by the Chrome team in the last month.
nextparadigms 15y ago
It's only the desktop browser. The only place I've seen stat companies adding the desktop one with the mobile one is for Safari actually, and skewing the results in favor of Safari. And no, Chrome doesn't include Safari numbers either, just because it has Safari name in its user agent.