I find this comment very funny, "More time is needed before we know whether Chrome was a smart project or a failed endeavor" because I would not call Opera a failed project and Chrome flew past them in under a year. 3% of a market that would otherwise be using IE is a respectable number. Now, I hope to see that number grow and would give my 1st born son to get the Hell Spawn that is Internet Explorer out of my Website Designing life, but that will have to wait a little longer.
David
· 3 months ago
I recently reinstalled my whole system. Here's how it went. I was FORCED to installed IE. I NEED Firefox for the developer features and extensions. But I use Chrome as my browser. Happy birthday Chrome :)
Arthur Wilkie
· 3 months ago
Actually, Chrome has some great developer tools as well. Happy Birthday Chrome ;).
Anthony Bynoe
· 3 months ago
Its my default browser, Happy Birthday Chrome!
Dude
· 3 months ago
My default browser as well (on OSX). It's FAST.
iHouse
· 3 months ago
I wish I could make it default on my Ubuntu too. But I am using Chrome through Wine, so.. Be social!
PJ Edwards
· 3 months ago
I want to like Chrome, I really do, however it is very unstable and crashes too often for me to use regularly. Luckily, I could send the stats back to Google and restore the tabs but when I have to do it every time I change pages, it gets kind of annoying.
Name
· 3 months ago
I think about 2weeks ago I finally got YouTube to play on it. Yay for iGoogle and it's app page, but default browser: No.
Cersei
· 3 months ago
I for one use it and love it. The ability to move tabs etc is great. And it is very stable.
dannyroa
· 3 months ago
Chrome is my primary browser.
I think the number is impressive. Look at Safari which only has 4% and has been around much longer.
Elizabeth K. Barone
· 3 months ago
It's also doing better than Opera, which has been around longer. Definitely impressive!
Chana Hercenberg
· 3 months ago
I'm a big fan of Chrome! A colleague recommended it to me recently and I have started recommending it to others (and installing it for my non-techie friends)! It provides much more browser space on the mini computers, ease of use if a browser crashes (because each unit is separate), faster download speeds, faster/easier searches, etc...
pranman
· 3 months ago
Chrome has been my primary and default browser since day 1 of its launch. Seriously, I hate clutter on my desktop and chrome is the most minimalistic I've seen a browser yet. Besides, it is so seriously fast that I love it. The only drawback though, is that I must use Firefox for shopping online because some websites are just incompatible with Chrome and won't work well.
Seriously, I can't wait to try out the Chrome OS. I bet it will have a minimalistic interface as well.
Stéphane Soler
· 3 months ago
Love Google Chrome !! Changing my geek life !
barringtonarch
· 3 months ago
where's our mac version???
Erwan
· 3 months ago
Default browser for me also ! Firefox as a development environment. IE... in order to validate that everything is fine so that 67% of the above sheep can see my pages... :- )
Sonya A. Willis
· 3 months ago
My default browser as well. Happy Birthday Chrome! Most people stick with using IE because they think installing Chrome or Firefox would be too difficult for them.
I'm not worried about Google losing focus because of the Chrome OS. The Chrome browser has been the shot across the bow and to gain almost 3% of the market in a year? Look out everyone else. Bring on the Chrome OS!
melindamoses
· 3 months ago
Chrome's my default browser too. I really like it a lot, just wish more apps ran in it ... or the ones that do run ran better.
Marcelo Ramos
· 3 months ago
Chrome rules! Fastest browser ever! My default browser as well!
The Modern Courtesan
· 3 months ago
also my default browser, its slick clean and with a small footprintand superfast. Not a memory hog like ie, and doesn't have all the add ons like firefox ( which to be honest i don't miss at all) it's a fantastic browser.
mikefay25
· 3 months ago
Chrome is the best! My default browser. Cannot wait for the OS. It proves so much more stable and quicker than IE. Plus, the Bookmarks Bar is very handy.
Brendan
· 3 months ago
For quite awhile Firefox was my favorite browser. But with every release it seems Firefox gets slower and slower, while Chrome just gets faster. Chrome 2 vs. Firefox 3.5 there is no comparison. I still use both but Chrome is my default when I'm trying to get a lot done fast.
Ryan Lalonde
· 3 months ago
I've not used Chrome too much but when I do it's usually nice. Happy birthday!
J U Hasan
· 3 months ago
Chrome is my default browser.
Happy birthday!
Chris Cruz
· 3 months ago
I would try Chrome out I could install it on OSX
Elizabeth K. Barone
· 3 months ago
I don't have a problem with Chome, but I'm married to Firefox. Unless something drastically changes, I'll stick with him. (;
Leo Dutra
· 3 months ago
The fact is... Chrome is faster than Firefox loading pages, starting, rendering pages and executing JavaScript. Firefox eats CPU and memory. Firefox motivates the use of new JavaScript versions that only it implements...causing common problems, like the culture Microsoft applied before... on IE.
Just wait Wave, Google OS and Chrome future versions. You'll think again.
And please, meet www.chromeexperiments.com ... test on your browsers and feel the pure power of the 1yr old dude. Search about Tamarin too. It's a nice project and surely will make something nice happen.
A hug.
liuxiangbo
· 3 months ago
xxx
iTbay
· 3 months ago
Chrome has been working so fast on my computer lately ... so fast!!! lol wow! Cant believe how only under 3% market share has it...the other browsers R sticking ppl in their web of who knows what...however, i do like firefox as well...foxxy lady!!!
eas
· 2 months ago
Yes, its been a success. Since chrome debuted, Javascript performance, and various other issues that Chrome helped draw attention to have become a focus for other browsers (well, for Firefox and Safari/WebKit, IE seems hopeless). As a result, at least 10x as many people as actually use Chrome have benefitted from the competitive pressure from Chrome.
I don't want to overstate this, the Firefox and Safari teams were clearly already working to improve javascript performance, but still I think the competition has been helpful.
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I think the number is impressive. Look at Safari which only has 4% and has been around much longer.
Seriously, I can't wait to try out the Chrome OS. I bet it will have a minimalistic interface as well.
I'm not worried about Google losing focus because of the Chrome OS. The Chrome browser has been the shot across the bow and to gain almost 3% of the market in a year? Look out everyone else. Bring on the Chrome OS!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
Firefox eats CPU and memory. Firefox motivates the use of new JavaScript versions that only it implements...causing common problems, like the culture Microsoft applied before... on IE.
Just wait Wave, Google OS and Chrome future versions. You'll think again.
And please, meet www.chromeexperiments.com ... test on your browsers and feel the pure power of the 1yr old dude. Search about Tamarin too. It's a nice project and surely will make something nice happen.
A hug.
I don't want to overstate this, the Firefox and Safari teams were clearly already working to improve javascript performance, but still I think the competition has been helpful.