Internet Explorer Users Set Sail for Google's Chrome
Source: Tom's Guide | Keywords: IE, Chrome, Firefox, Market, Share | Themes: The Internet, Software, Business
Google’s Chrome is cutting itself a nice little slice of the market share Microsoft Internet Explorer’s market share, reports ComputerWorld citing U.S.-based tracking company Net Applications.
Chrome has been the talk of the playground and while a lot of the coverage over the last week or so has focused on bugs, patches and fixes for said bugs, speculation as to what Chrome will mean for Google’s support of Mozilla’s Firefox, there’s been little data to show how popular Chrome has been with users.
When you consider the fact that the browser has only been out a week, any data should be taken with a grain of salt. When a new product emerges, particularly something users can get for free and are under no obligation to stick with, you’re always going to see a migration of users eager to try the new and compare it to the old before making a decision.
It’s for this reason that we expected to see a bloated user base for Chrome. Last week Net Applications said Chrome hit 1.48 percent of the market share before stabilizing around 1 percent. While this week’s numbers are a little lower than that (According to NA, Chrome is currently at 0.7 percent), they’re nothing to be ashamed of, especially since Google seems to be taking those users solely from Internet Explorer.
"IE took the entire market share hit from Chrome," said Vince Vizzaccaro, Net Applications’ executive vice president of marketing, told ComputerWorld. That coupled with the fact that Vizzaccaro says the rest of the alternative browsers all had gains as well is not good news for IE.
Read the full story on ComputerWorld.
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I love it, I've already switched almost exclusively. Except for a few work related sites that only work on IE, I find it does everything I need. It's nice to see a tab crash and not take out the whole browser
it was surprising when that happened to me, first thought that came to my mind was why no one thought of this before?
Anyways, it wasn't enough to pull me away from firefox, one of the websites i go to (manga) was compromised, Avira detected it right away so all is well. But when i go in Firefox no virus attack, i guess Adblock+NoScript can really save a comp.
Chrome has a simple nice design && some interesting features, but, the zoom feature is comparable to IE6. It's the most important feature on a high resolution small sized screen(1900x1200 on 17"). IE7 is the king regarding this. Also at work this browser tends to be unusable on a p4 3 ghz if more than 5 tabs with flash are opened.
I tend to use ff3 & ie7 depending on what icon I see first.
I tried to install the Adobe Flash Player on Chrome yesterday and it wouldnt let me.. I didnt have time to mess with it though, so I Im not sure why it wouldnt install.. Anyone else run into that problem?
I seriously doubt the accuracy of all of these sorts of reports. Sure IE is loosing market share, but I'm 100% certain that the majority of people that are going to go out and try something like Chrome on the first few days are not going to be your run of the mill computer users which comprise the majority of IE users. Have you read a single comment from anyone that tried Chrome that didn't compare it to Firefox and/or Opera at the same time as IE? Everyone that is trying Chrome are the same people that have been exploring alternative browsers to IE for years already.
@Someone123,
I thought the same thing but I guess that's why the statistics are so interesting.
@blackened144,
I went to my favorite flash games site as soon as I downloaded chrome and it played every game I've tried without needing to install flash, so I guess its already installed.
So, of 100% of the 1.48% of IE users that tried Chrome, 47% of them went back to IE, leaving .7% happy with Chrome.
Yep, MS must be worried.
As a web designer and web developer i started to use the browser Chrome already. Thank you googleand thank you for this article