Chrome Now Number 2 Browser in the UK
Google's Chrome browser is now the number two browser in the United Kingdom.
It seems like only yesterday Google was introducing its Chrome web browser to the world. First revealed in 2008, and officially released in December of that year, the browser certainly is new to the game. However, it seems that in the three years it's been on the market, it's made some serious headway when it comes to market share. In fact, Chrome is now the number two most popular OS in the UK and Ireland.
Statcounter reports that Chrome last month accounted for 22.1 percent of the UK market, up from 3.9 percent for the same period in 2009. This leap means Chrome now occupies the number two spot, pushing Mozilla Firefox, with its even 22 percent, to third place. Chrome is also number two in Ireland, a spot it snagged from Mozilla Firefox in May of this year. While Microsoft remains in first place, the company's Internet Explorer browser has seen a significant decline, dropping from 61 percent to 46 percent in the same period, globally.
"Chrome continues to make significant gains in the browser market going from under 4 percent two years ago to over 20 percent today," commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. "Despite falling market share Internet Explorer still leads in the browser war but the next few months will be interesting to watch with Chrome and Firefox almost neck and neck."
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It's hardly surprising. It's fast and the first with such a simple design, the others are trying to copy in order to save dwindling user counts but copying is never the way and no one ever seems to understand that. I still use Firefox but to ensure family members don't have problems, I install Chrome on their devices. If IE9 didn't take so long to catch up with the other browsers then it may have been my browser of choice for family members, but now they are all used to Chrome.
to be fair its taking internet explorer users rather than firefox. ive always been a supporter of opera myself, which is the real innovator in the browser market.
to be fair its taking internet explorer users rather than firefox. ive always been a supporter of opera myself, which is the real innovator in the browser market.
True, although Chrome also spearheaded some innovations (tabs on top, sync, built in PDF).
That being said, it still loses badly to Opera, which was the first with tabs, password sync, built in email, torrent, RSS and IRC, CSS support,...).
However, we've come to a point where your choice of browser hardly matters anymore. Apart from Safari, all are reasonably low on memory and CPU. All are fast enough and all except IE and Safari are capable of rendering fully compliant code (and even the two losers are more than accurate enough). Even UI-wise differences are shrinking with everyone copying either Opera (FF) or Chrome (IE).
The only reason Chrome is doing well is becasue you cant permanently get rid of the damn Download Chrome Now button on the Google homepage which is most people's default home page. Your average computer user hasn't got a clue about the pro's and con's of each browser, but they cant resist pressing buttons. Just a case of Google abusing their market position as do Apple, Microsoft, Sun at al. Why do you think M$ are trying ever trick in the book to get people onto the Bing or MSN homepage?
I think if you excluded smart phones the results will be very different.