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Google's Chrome browser has been growing in popularity now for some time, but the latest news is that it is the UK's second most popular browser.
A report from Statcounter shows that last month, Chrome took 22% of the UK market, overtaking Firefox by a small margin. Statcounter claim that Internet Explorer is losing market share to Google Chrome, but is still the UK's favourite browser – more than likely due to the fact it is the default browser on Windows operating systems.
Google have spent money advertising the browser in the UK which has helped boost downloads, but many experts claim it is the fastest browser available.
Lars Bak, the lead engineer involved with Chrome told the Guardian UK “Speed is a fundamental part of it, but it's also about the minimal design and the way it handles security. If you as a user try [to load] a webpage and it feels snappy, it's really hard to go back [to another browser]. It has shown that people spend more time interacting with the web.”
Bak apparently focuses all his time on trying to constantly improve browser speed saying “You should never be happy with [existing] speed. Of course it gets harder to make substantial gains, but it's all healthy competition. From the beginning we wanted everybody to be fast, and now all browsers are fast.”
Kitguru says: Do you use Chrome. If so, is speed the main reason you like it?
http://gs.statcounter.com/
Check ur stats…
1. Microsoft Internet Explorer: 42.45%
2. Mozilla Fire Fox : 27.95%
3. Google Chrome : 22.14%
4. Apple Safari : 5.16%
5. Opera : 1.66%
I dislike chrome because once loaded its slower than firefox.
its also slower than IE 9 on some sites !
The competition for sure did work hard. Google still advertise chrome as the fastest browser available because it’s what is in people’s mind now. But it’s not really the truth anymore.
That said with the power of advertising they have (they can put google chrome advert on 70% of the web and decorate complete cities for a week, can you believe that?) I don’t doubt they will take over everyone.
Unfortunately I fear it’s a bad thing for the web as they start to do microsoft-like stuff, such as sponsored websites that work ONLY in chrome.
and chrome is not minimal when it come to memory usage
maybe if you open 1 or 2 tab it’s minimal but open 10-12 tab
and you’ll see nothing can compete with firefox
Anant malik its uk, not worldwide
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