Chrome Overtakes Safari As Number 3 Browser
It hasn't been around for long but Google's Chrome is already more popular than Safari.
Google's Chrome browser isn't even two years old but it scored a huge win this week when it overtook Apple's Safari as the number three browser in the U.S. According to StatCounter, Chrome overtook Safari last week and is now the third-most-popular browser behind Internet Explorer and Firefox.
As it stands, Chrome accounts or 8.97 percent of the browser market, with Safari coming in just behind with 8.88 percent. Microsoft's Internet Explorer remains the number one browser for the U.S. with a market share of 52 percent, followed by Mozilla Firefox with 28.5 percent.
"This is quite a coup for Google as they have gone from zero to almost 10 percent of the U.S. market in under two years," said Aodhan Cullen, CEO of StatCounter. "There is a battle royal going on between Google and Apple in the internet browser space (Chrome v Safari) as well as in the mobile market (Android v iPhone)."
According to StatCounter, Chrome has been miles ahead of Safari in the global browser market for quite some time. The Google browser accounts for 9.4 percent of the market compared to 4 percent for Safari.
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4%? Does that mean Opera is larger than Safari as well? Judging by the last statistics I saw, it has roughly 5% market share.
Mind you, that's a good thing. Opera 10.60 is after all faster than Chrome 6 in just about every benchmark and it offers a ton of features that Chrome doesn't (admittedly, some of the best like mouse gestures can be had in Chrome too with the right extension, but a lot of things like the customizable UI aren't available at all in Chrome and a lot of extensions slow you down).
Why is Opera always the smallest kid on the block? It looks awesome, it's the fastets on the market and it has features that are lightyears ahead of competition. It even has Adblock without an extension, how many browsers can say that?
Good old IE. Still at the top
Good old IE. Still at the top
Yup, but only because it's bundled software... The EU's ballot browser screen sharply reduced IE's market share for example.
IE8 has nothing going for it. It's the slowest of the big browsers. It's the least secure of the big browsers. It's the least stable of the big browsers. It offers the least functionalities of the big browsers. It's the least compliant with web standards of all the big browsers. It's absolute junk.
IE9 looks like their chance of redeeming themselves though. Not Chrome/Opera-like performance, but at least Firefox-ish performance. But functionality still seems missing. FF and Chrome are meager on their own, but have ad-ons. Opera supports pretty much every feature from adblocking to mouse gestures natively. What does IE bring to the table? Neither of these.
I don't have problems with IE8. I was always being asked to download extras with Firefox and none of the rest seem to have tabbed browsing that opens your homepage and middle click scrolling. That's why I use IE8.
Erm... Every browser has these features. And these extra's aren't forced upon you. If you don't want them, don't download them.
But it's your loss, some of them are great. Block advertising, open tabs by making mouse gestures, one click access to Wikipedia articles, Facebook pages and other popular web destinations, customize the UI, darken your screen when watching movies, get pop up weather forecasts,...
The list of possibilities is endless. IE8 on the other hand, is pretty much nothing. It has minimalist features and even when being so small, it still doesn't manage to be fast. That's just pathetic.