I hadn’t looked at my browser marketshare in a while, so I fired up Google Analytics:
Rough browser numbers are
Firefox
57.58%
IE
26.07%
Safari
6.48%
Chrome
5.11%
Opera
2.35%
Mozilla
1.44%
SeaMonkey
0.48%
Mozilla Compatible
0.18%
Konqueror
0.13%
Camino
0.04%
OneStat says that they see 0.54% share for Google Chrome. Net Applications provides an hour-by-hour graph, which is nice, but they hardwired it to look for the string “Chrome 0.2″ when Chrome is on version 0.3 or 0.4 by now. Just eyeballing the Chrome 0.3 version stats, it looked like about 0.85% market share according to Net Applications. Hey Net Applications folks, any chance you’d be willing to roll up all the Chrome versions into your hourly report?
I hadn’t realized that Internet Explorer usage had dropped so low for my site. What does your browser marketshare stats look like for the last month or so for your site(s)?
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Written by on November 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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Om Malik wrote an interesting post about Google Chrome one month after the public launch. While I was reading Om’s post, I realized that I wrote a post for the Google Chrome release that I never published. I’ll include it here, and then let’s meet at the bottom and compare notes.
Like many Google engineers, I’ve been running Google Chrome for several months. When I sat down with a blank piece of paper to write down why you should try Google Chrome, I ended up with several reasons, including speed, security, stability, and openness. I’ll run through them for you.
Speed. Google Chrome is wicked fast, especially if you use AJAX/JavaScript-heavy web applications such as Gmail. And it’s not just “benchmark fast,” it’s end-to-end fast. Google Chrome puts special emphasis on never making the user wait. Opening a tab is essentially instantaneous, and all the little pauses that would normally […]
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Written by on October 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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The best place to submit Chrome feedback is at
http://groups.google.com/group/google-chrome-help
Not here (I’m going to disable comments on this post) and not over at Search Engine Roundtable. I still see a comment a day or so trickling in over there, probably because the post ranks highly for “Chrome feedback.”
Just to repeat, if you want a Chrome person to see your feedback, the best place to leave comments is at http://groups.google.com/group/google-chrome-help
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Written by on September 27th, 2008 with no comments.
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A few neat Chrome things that I’ve seen recently:
CrossOver ported the open-source Chromium browser over to Mac and Linux using Wine. Bear in mind that this is more of a proof-of-concept and not the official version, but you can still download the binaries and play with it.
If you like the look and feel of Chrome but can’t leave your Firefox 3 extensions behind, someone made a Chrome lookalike extension so that Firefox looks like Chrome.
Or if you want to go the other direction, you can make Chrome look like Firefox3:
Lots of different places, including ChromeSpot, talk about how to do other themes, from “Galaxy” to the Boston Red Sox.
Currently Chrome doesn’t have support for extensions such as Greasemonkey that lets users do client-side modifications of web pages. But Kazuho Oku has written a neat way to get Greasemonkey-like functionality out of Chrome. Oku calls it Greasemetal. How does it work, […]
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Written by on September 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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It’s easy to find out what Google Chrome’s user-agent is. Using the same trick as I did with the iPhone, I searched for phpinfo HTTP_USER_AGENT in Google Chrome. Click on one of the results and search for HTTP_USER_AGENT on the page. Here’s the image that I see:
My exact user-agent is
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13
So “0.2.149.27″ is the current version, but that will change over time. I wouldn’t be surprised if the “525.13″ value for WebKit changed too.
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Written by on September 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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Alright, I’ve got another conspiracy theory misconception to dispel. After reading through the Chrome Terms of Service, some people are worried that Google is trying to assert rights on everything that you do on Chrome. From one example story by Marshall Kirkpatrick:
The terms include a section giving Google “a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.” That seems pretty extreme for a browser, doesn’t it?
I knew that Google didn’t want to assert rights on what people did using Google Chrome, so I asked the Chrome team and Google lawyers for their reaction or to clarify (probably several other people pinged them too). Here’s what I heard back from Rebecca Ward, the Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome:
“In order to keep things simple for our […]
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Written by on September 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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I spend a fair amount of my time debunking misconceptions about Google. So when I found out that Google Chrome was going to be released, I put on my thinking cap about what objections people would throw out about Google Chrome. Here are the questions that I came up with, along with my personal answers. I want to stress that this is my personal blog, so even though I believe all of this is accurate, these are not official answers.
Q: This browser is going to have AdSense hard-coded into a browser frame that I can’t delete, right?
A: No, there’s no ads built into Google Chrome at all.
Q: Hmm. Well, I bet you hard-code Google as the default search engine, don’t you? I’ll bet you can’t even select other search engines!
A: Prepare to be pleasantly surprised. By default, Google Chrome imports your default search engine from your default browser. When you […]
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Written by on September 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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For better or worse, my blog is popular with the Google conspiracy-theorist demographic. I knew that as soon as Google Chrome launched, some readers would ask tough questions about privacy and how/when Google Chrome communicates with google.com.
So I decided to tackle this issue head-on. I talked to the Chrome team to find out if there’s anything to worry about. The short answer is no. For the long answer, read on.
- If you’re just surfing around the web and clicking on links, that information does not go to google.com.
- If you are typing a search or url in the address bar, Google Chrome will talk to the current search service to try to offer useful query/url suggestions. I love this feature, but you can turn it off. Right-click in the Omnibox/address bar and choose “Edit search engines…”. Or click the Chrome menu (it looks like a wrench), then Options->Basics and […]
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Written by on September 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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According to a press release this morning, Google will host a webcast press briefing and demo of Google Chrome at 11 a.m. Pacific time today. I think this link (Windows Media Player) or this link (Real Player) will get you there in case you want to watch.
I plan to be in the room and I’ll comment on tidbits that especially catch my ear.
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Written by on September 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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According to a press release this morning, Google will host a webcast press briefing and demo of Google Chrome at 11 a.m. Pacific time today. I think this link (Windows Media Player) or this link (Real Player) will get you there in case you want to watch.
I plan to be in the room and I’ll comment on tidbits that especially catch my ear.
10:58 a.m.: Just got out of another meeting and now I’m sitting in the room with all the press. I see Google Folks like Brian Rakowski and Ben Goodger along the wall. Linus Upson and Sundar Pichai are here too.
11:07 a.m.: Google Chrome will be available at noon today.
11:09 a.m.: Sundar Pichai will talk for about 10 minutes about why Google built Chrome.
11:10: Sundar is contrasting Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, with “rich, interactive AJAX applications.”
11:11 Sundar: “I do pretty much everything inside a browser.” What are the […]
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Written by on September 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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