Google Chrome tops 160 million users
Chrome has seen massive expansion, thanks to users migrating from Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Chrome reportedly snatched 1 per cent of browser market share in its first day, and has since seen huge growth, increasing its share from just over 8 per cent to over 18 per cent in the last 12 months.
Chrome's simple, snappy design has seen people flock to the browser from Internet Explorer, and even from Firefox. According to Statscounter.com, Firefox has lost more than two per cent market share in the same period, with the release of Firefox 4 doing little to help, despite being downloaded 24 million times in its first three days.
In contrast, Chrome 10, which was released in March, has kept the momentum going for Google, which looks set to hold well over 20 per cent of browser market share by the end of 2011.
Meanwhile, Internet Explorer has been struggling to maintain its stronghold. Microsoft's browser has held less than 50 per cent of browser market share since the end of 2010, with the March release of IE9 seemingly doing little to lure back users.
Have you switched browsers recently? What do you think of the latest version of Chrome? Let us know in the forums.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyI've been using Chrome for about two years now and love it. It always seems to be improving as well - I used to have problems with PDFs but not any more!
Immediately loved the "magic bar" (or whatever its called) and the ability to drag and drop tabs around.
Now Chrome seems to be the only browser actually bringing anything new to the scene, with the other browser trying to catch up, especially in terms of UI.
[citation needed]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/snap-links/
Chrome also has it :p
but i am a HUGE Firefox user, been using it since 1.5. also use Chrome as secondary incognito browser since FF's private mode is frankly crap. in fact, Chrome only launches in incognito for me (with help of command line switch).
Chrome has it:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gjcjbldedbadhjhlbmjekgaefegoaaih?hl=en
edit: Try again?
I see there is a Chrome version. There is also Linkclump.
Should try Chrome again.
Naturally I await the flaming that comes with not changing brower within the first day of upgrading.
I was put off Chrome in earlier versions when I found it was taking up local profile space. On a network like the one I use on a daily basis, profile size is to be kept as low as possible, otherwise logon / logoff takes the best part of half an hour. I remember it being fairly snappy at loading pages up though. Might have to give it another go
Looking at Firefox 4, there seems to be a definate improvement for me over FF3.* - much more responsive, although the default UI is a bit crap. 5 minutes of playing around fixes that though.
Ok, trying Chrome.
What addon allows to personalize the UI? Tabs on bottom, always on status bar, etc.
What addon offers more buttons? Similar to Toolbar Buttons.
How to disable the spelling?
How to make Chrome use the "I feel lucky" behaviour? (This is strange, behaviour gives an error on spelling... :| )
The only thing however which is preventing me from switching over is the lack of a separate search bar on the right of address bar, which in Firefox you can even customise with additional search engines! If anyone knows if this is possible to have in chrome, i would gladly switch over, as i use that bar all the time!
With chrome that is unnecessary (at least in my experience) you can have keywords for all the website searches you want (it autofills them the first time you use them though with a default keyword) that you type in the url bar and then press tab. Then whatever you type next it will search on that website. I personally find that quicker than the firefox method where you have to change the search it will use with the drop down box (unless I am missing something).
Why do you need it? Just type your search in to the address bar and it will do a Google search.
Type imdb scarlett and be immediately taken to Scarlett Johanssons page in IMDB.
Apparently Firefox has over taken IE in Europe. About time to.
I find it really useful to google something, then see more info about said topic in wikipedia (without having to go all the way back to google), then see what the price is on amazon or ebay, or if there are any videos on youtube, all without typing anything extra! As for the keyword search, i might give that a go, but i think i'll still have to type it out...
I also came across rockmelt, which seems to have added in the search bar to chrome, but you cant customise the engines. It sdoes have some really awesome features tho!
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/04/22/rockmelt-google-chrome-only-better
I have to use Firefox, IE 8 & 9 as well as Safari at work for testing and support purposes but I always point customers towards Chrome as it's by far the easiest to use from the user's perspective as you simply don't have to do anything to it.
spelling: http://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable-google-chrome-built-in-spell-checker/
felling lucky: http://blog.stevehorn.cc/2009/02/google-chrome-feeling-lucky-search.html
as for the others... try searching the plugin database for something similar...
Same here. Google chrome also seemed to crash a lot more than FF4 and kept losing all my preferences, something that becomes tiresome quickly!
Did search the database, couldnt find any extension to add buttons or customize the UI. Did find one to remove the "new tab at the immediate right" behaviour.
You are not important.
In other news, Chrome ftw.