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!

By: jinushaun

jinushaun — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:27:46 +0000

All these anti-Flash people talk about HTML 5 like it’ll bring the end of obnoxious interactive ads. It won’t. The future will have CPU-intensive ad-ware made in HTML 5.

By: jinushaun

jinushaun — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:22:26 +0000

Because the user experience of Chrome is far superior to Safari, especially for power users. As a web developer, it’s even better. You get to test WebKit without having to resort to a dumbed-down browser. Plus Chrome includes a lot of web dev tools built-in, so need for extensions anyway. I can’t wait for Chrome on OS X.

By: Tom B

Tom B — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:28:41 +0000

You may have a point; I’ve met a number of real Apple-haters on the PC side (but, I’d say most are open-minded). Webkit is indeed a big winner– and it looks like it will dominate for mobile surfing, a rapidly growing segment. I’m thinking Flash and (MS) Silverlight have a dim future– CPU intensive ad-ware is bad news in a mobile, battery-powered world.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:22:01 +0000

I have both Safari 4 and Chrome installed on my Windows machine. Overall, I much prefer Safari as it’s more of a full featured browser. I do like Chrome’s search bar that’s used for both URLs and searches. That’s both a great idea and a good use of space. However, overall, Safari 4 is more appealing to me.

In my opinion, this has more to do with the Windows world either disliking or distrusting Apple in general and loving everything Google. Given the success of iTunes, one would think that just wouldn’t be an issue. Prior to Safari 4, Safari had a very distinct Mac look. Though one could argue the Mac look is better, on the Windows platform, it’s a fish out of water. I suppose the same goes for iTunes. But, Safari 4 looks like a native Windows app, so again, it doesn’t make sense.

Either way, the overall trend is positive. IE continues to lose share and webkit based browsers continue to gain. Success for chrome is indirectly success for Safari through the common link to webkit.

By: Tom B

Tom B — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:10:46 +0000

I’ll TRY Chrome, when GOOG gets off its tail and ships a stable version, but I continue to be most impressed with Firefox 3 (Mac); I prefer it even to Safari.

By: Tilo

Tilo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:35 +0000

I don’t care whether Safari or Chrome gains market share. They are both based on WebKit, i.e. practically identical from the perspective of a web-author. Therefore any growth for WebKit makes it more worthwhile for a website to support WebKit, rather than just Internet Explorer. And end-users, they get to choose which UI around WebKit is their favorite (Safari or Chrome).