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Chrome beats IE market share for one day
- codesuela 15y agoInternet Explorer: the employees browser of duress
- zitterbewegung 15y agoDo you want the overhead of testing your internal web application on two browsers or one?
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- Nogwater 15y agoI'd rather test my web app in a browser with modern development tools (Chrome, Safari, IE 9, Firefox with Firebug).
- sirclueless 15y agoI'm not so sure. If half of the value of the app you are developing is that it will still work 5 years after your consulting gig with no intervention, then it's hard to fault someone for choosing IE.
- sad_panda 15y agoMaybe in the early-aughts. Me, I'd be putting my chips on a Webkit future.
- Nogwater 15y agoMaybe you've had different experiences, but I've had very few problems with forward compatibility in all of the major browsers (IE/FF/Chrome), and I don't know why that would change going forward. Actually, I'd go so far as to say that if you develop your apps to work cross-browser, they're more likely to work in future versions of IE than if you specifically target your dev at a single version of IE. Also, just because I do 90% of my dev work where there are good tools, doesn't mean that I can't or don't test in IE 8- (depending on the target audience).
- ricardobeat 15y agoThat doesn't make any sense. Forward compatibility is not an issue at all with modern browsers, and you're not obliged to update either.
- tjoff 15y agoand you're not obliged to update either. With chrome (and now firefox?) you kind of are obliged to update... Right? Due to their update scheme I've at least gotten the impression that they won't fix security issues in older versions, but I could be wrong.
- Nogwater 15y agoFirefox has a little middle ground where you can use specific versions outside of the fast release cycle and still get security updates. At least that's the plan. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:... You don't get the 10 years of support that MSFT might provide for (some) versions of IE, but it's not like you have to upgrade every 6 weeks either. Also, because Firefox is open source, they're hoping that someone else will pick up the slack and continue to support older versions. I haven't heard of any similar program from Chrome.
- Karunamon 15y agoHaving something that will work 5 years after your consulting gig is not a problem - avoid browser specific features and try to stick to the HTML spec as close as you can.
- cobychapple 15y agoIt's great to see (from the peaks in usage of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera on weekends) that people are choosing more progressive browsers over IE for home use. It'd also be neat to see the breakdown of IE versions in this data too. Microsoft sure do have their work cut out for them!
- rhplus 15y agoYou could interpolate from the chart that shows distribution by browser versions up to February 2012. Chrome's auto-update feature is staggeringly efficient. IE 8.0 18.86 IE 9.0 12.08 IE 7.0 3.32 IE 6.0 1.48 Chrome 16.0 13.39 Chrome 15.0 0.35 Chrome 14.0 0.35 Chrome 12.0 0.27 Chrome 13.0 0.25 EDIT: removed the Firefox and "Other" numbers as their sum is nowhere close to the aggregated numbers in the browser monthly charts [2]. StatCounter must be counting recent versions of Chrome and Firefox as "Other" in data set [1]. Source: [1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201102-201202 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201102... (from the CSV file) [2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201102-201203 http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201102-201203
- ootachi 15y agoNo, people are choosing Chrome over IE for home use. The trend is clear; Chrome is likely to achieve a crushingly dominant market share in a couple of years, or sooner.
- zobzu 15y agopeople chose what internet said to take internet = google.com and it tells them to do that
- cobychapple 15y agoYes, the trend you're referring to (Chrome becoming dominant) is clear, but it's the other pattern (the weekly cycles of troughs for IE, and the coinciding peaks for all other browsers) that I was referring to.
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- AznHisoka 15y agoAs much as I like Chrome, the increase in Chrome's share also means more people will be using Google by default.. and their search dominance scares me. Consumer web startups can literally die overnight if Google penalizes them(google "TeachStreet"), or if their Adwords account got banned for some unknown reason.
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- sad_panda 15y agoNo it doesn't. This is screen that greets new users of Chrome: http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/chrome/chrome_95346_search_engine_en.png http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/chrome/chrome_95346_sea...
- strawbucks 15y agoIsn't Google's dominance in the search engine business pretty well established at this point? Is there a sizable group of people that, upon using Chrome, will be using Google search more often?
- TheCoreh 15y agoWhen you first install Google Chrome, you're presented with the choice of search engine. I'm pretty sure 99% choose Google not because they are already using Chrome, but because they probably trust or know Google more than Bing or Yahoo. From my experience, IE users will usually either ignore the Bing search field, type "google.com" in and search manually, or change the search provider to Google anyway. I would also speculate that a very large portion of Chrome users has no idea that the address bar is also a search field. They probably type in "google.com" manually every time. If Bing, Yahoo or anyone else provides a more compelling search experience, these users will switch.
- guynamedloren 15y agoRandom story: I've used Chrome since the day it was publicly released and am fully aware that the address bar does more than just accept urls - in fact, it's called the omnibox for a great reason. But I still type in "google.com" for 99% of my searches (probably 100+ times a day). The reason is that I like the Google homepage. The white space allows me to clear my thoughts without being distracted by whatever would be on my screen otherwise, and the search box is perfectly positioned in the center of my screen. Weird, I know, but I like it.
- thought_alarm 15y ago12 years ago I suggested that IE would lose its crown to a web browser developed by a web site using an open source cross platform rendering engine developed by Apple. And everyone said I was nuts.
- mariusmg 15y agoIf it's open source, it's not developed by apple......
- program 15y agoWebKit is open source and is developed by Apple and other companies such as KDE, Google, Nokia, Samsung and others.
- cookiecaper 15y agoKDE is not a company and WebKit originated as a fork from KHTML, KDE's HTML rendering engine used in Konqueror. Too much credit is often ascribed to Apple for appropriating the engine on to a popular piece of software (OS X).
- bad_user 15y agoThey did applied polish to it though and also built a new Javascript engine. I don't know who contributed what, but today's WebKit is a lot better than what KHTML was before being forked. I was once a KDE user and the first thing I did after a fresh install was to replace Konqueror. But yes, truth be told, the KDE developers that worked on KHTML deserve a lot of credit.
- ma2rten 15y agoYou are not doing Apple justice. Next to WebKit, which is the base for Chrome and Safari, they also open sourced Darwin, which is the base for iOS and MacOS X.
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- avallark 15y agoChrome beats IE market share. It showed that over the weekend Chrome is the most used browser, while on a weekday, people go back to work and use IE. This has two implications: 1) Companies are still locked into some solutions like OWA and sharepoint because of which users still use IE at work. 2) Users have started distinguishing between browsers and at home they prefer using Chrome. For companies with most of their clients using their own personal computers (like for us), we could expect a fair share of Chrome over IE and hence the following: 1) Our QA should have a major focus on testing with these browsers. 2) Architecture needs to focus on this stat. as a guiding principle while deciding future architecture. Another interesting statistics is the second screenshot with the Mobile Operating systems. 1) The highest share of internet browsers still run a Nokia Symbian phone. Most likely these are traffic from developing countries, where monetizing from these clients is extremely difficult. 2) iPhone and Android are tied and very close. So focusing only on iPhone could be a mistake. We need to open up to focusing on Android just as much.
- Karunamon 15y agoThought it would be worth mentioning, newer versions of OWA (14.2.247.0, at my workplace, the latest and greatest MS Exchange) explicitly support Chrome, but there is some silverlight in there. This is using the full featured interface, not the crippled "light" version. Firefox too.
- RossP 15y agoSharePoint is cross-browser, at least as of SharePoint 2010. I don't believe any functions require IE. Disclaimer: I work for an MS partner, while I don't admin SharePoint our company does plenty of SharePoint work and our clients are happy.
- edwinnathaniel 15y agoYou need IE for some of its feature such as Datasheet View, multiple file upload, etc. They don't show up in Chrome. But that doesn't mean you can use Chrome. Just less productive.
- peterhunt 15y agoIn my opinion, successfully marketing a seamlessly up-to-date browser is the 3rd greatest thing Google has done for the world (behind search and gmail)
- Sunspot 15y agoHow many people choose Chrome? I bought a Lenovo laptop recently and Google Chrome was pre-installed as the default browser. And although the desktop shortcut icon was the familiar one, it was renamed "Internet Browser."