Comments on: Chrome to Pass Safari in Browser Market Share

By: Macpedia » Chrome Passes Safari in Market Share

Macpedia » Chrome Passes Safari in Market Share — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:33:48 +0000

[...] As predicted, Chrome has eclipsed Safari in web browser market share. According to web analytics firm Net Applications, Chrome’s share is now 4.4 percent, just edging out Safari at 4.37 percent. [...]

By: Chrome Passes Safari in Market Share

Chrome Passes Safari in Market Share — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:38:10 +0000

[...] in Market Share Written on December 15, 2009 by Charles Jade and No one has commented As predicted, Chrome has eclipsed Safari in web browser market share. According to web analytics firm Net [...]

By: 0b1

0b1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:27:36 +0000

I don’t understand how they can equate actual marketshare with browser marketshare.

And worse, I see no mention of excluding proxy servers that announce themselves as MS IE in the useragent string.

By: Portfolio of Thomas Maier — Designer And Developer » 41,3% Safari 4 users; 30,2% Mac OS X 10.6 users

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:03:11 +0000

[...] wish these values were representative – especially for the percentage of Safari 4. But in reality the market shares of Safari and Chrome are the same and still under 10%, even together. Related postsFix: Safari bug displays thicker text on dark [...]

By: Daz

Daz — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:35:17 +0000

Keep in mind OSX Chrome is currently only a dev preview

By: Sid Farcus

Sid Farcus — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:44:14 +0000

I tried the Mac version of Chrome and it’s missing a lot of functionality that Safari has, especially apparent in Chrome’s lack of support for contextual Services and lack of any Apple Event support. Two easy things to implement.

By: cc

cc — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:31:46 +0000

I tested Chrome a few months back and the menu and layout was WEAK. Just another vanilla flavored browser!

I’ll stick with Safari and Firefox for now.
I also use the simple but very fast Camino when I want faster loads.

By: cc

cc — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:24:21 +0000

So is it still in Beta?

No download link on the site.
http://www.google.com/chrome/index.html?

By: KillBill

KillBill — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:50:53 +0000

The benchmarks are not exactly good, Sorry, but Google’s V8 benchmark suite does not provide as good a “real world” test as WebKit’s Sunspider benchmark suite—the reason you see “negligible real world” difference between the browser versions.
I beg to differ on the speed difference in Wave… none that I can see with the current nightly and I’ll add WebKit nightlies are far more stable in Wave!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:24:57 +0000

Perhaps it would be better if people measured browser engine marketshare instead of browser brand marketshare. IE, Gecko, WebKit.

Taking into consideration that Chrome is really a WebKit browser, I’d say that WebKit as a platform is doing really well!