Google Chrome Passes Safari in Market Share
Google Chrome after only two years has passed Apple’s Safari browser for the title of the Internet’s third most popular browser. Net Applications found that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (all versions) accounts for about 62.7 percent of the worldwide browser market, while Mozilla’s Firefox accounts for about 24.6 percent of the worldwide market and now Chrome accounts for about 4.6 worldwide market.
Although Chrome just released beta version of Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux this does not seem to be large factor in its passing of Safari for third place. For one thing, Chrome for Mac OS X does not support browser extensions yet. This means that one of the main reasons to use Chrome (besides speed) simply isn’t available yet to Mac users. The ironic thing is that both Chrome and Safari are both built on the same rendering engine.
It should be interesting to see what the market share does as when Google releases Chrome with extensions for Mac OS X. For me, I used Chrome quite a bit before it came out with extensions but now that it has extensions I find myself using it more and more. From my experience it is way less clunky then Safari. My only real complaint is that it still crashes more then I wish it did but it is fast and lightweight with I find very important.
This is Good, Chrome is way better than Safari in many ways
on January 6, 2010
There is no doubt that chrome is better than Safari … but just a thing … I am reaaly afraid for the future of Firefox :[
on January 6, 2010