Chrome finishes 2010 with 10 percent share

robinbredin · 3 Jan 2011 at 13:30

With the steady rise in Chrome, 1 out of every 10 people surfing the Web in December used Google's browser.
Chrome's gains have come largely at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, whose usage share has been dropping for years, but there's also a ray of hope for Redmond. IE9, which embodies Microsoft's ambition to build a cutting-edge browser once again, is showing signs of real adoption with usage that grew from 0.4 percent in November to 0.5 percent in December, according to new statistics from Net Applications.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20026944-264.html#ixzz19yju2oco

I would have thought it was more than that, but CNET say I'm wrong.

HungryHippos · 3 Jan 2011 at 23:25

I do my general browsing at home in FireFox, at work I use IE8/FireFox as needs must. I mainly stick to IE at work though because we use some Microsoft web apps like CRM and MOSS, which either only work on IE or work a lot better on IE!

IE isn't bad, at the end of the day it lets you browse sites, just in some ways not as well as other browsers.

aceface57 · 4 Jan 2011 at 00:52

Chrome maybe faster than Firefox but I much prefer Firefox. At work chrome causes no end of issuse with Citrix...

zetec452 · 4 Jan 2011 at 00:56

I've recently switched to chrome. It is faster, although sometimes images do not show.

FF just got a little heavy for me.

Digitalle · 4 Jan 2011 at 00:59

I just cannot comprehend why all those people still use IE.

gary996 · 4 Jan 2011 at 08:29

Im on IE9 and think its very good. Not tried Chrome yet

gord · 4 Jan 2011 at 09:34

Digitalle said:
I just cannot comprehend why all those people still use IE.

The millions of people that have no choice over their installed apps at work or just don't care and go for the most obviously titled browser. I mean, if you asked someone who knew nothing about it what chrome or firefox are.. they dont make much sense do they.

Burnsy2023 · 4 Jan 2011 at 10:00

gary996 said:
Im on IE9 and think its very good. Not tried Chrome yet

I'm using IE9 and Chrome at the moment. I must admit, I'm quite liking IE9.

mrk · 4 Jan 2011 at 11:28

Chrome (v10 dev channel) is very fast and very nice but 2 Firefox extensions I use religiously (BBCode Extra and FireFTP) mean I will remain a dual browser user until these 2 extensions jump aboard the Chrome train as well.

apatia77 · 4 Jan 2011 at 11:32

Used to use FF all the time but now using Chrome, I don't really think Chrome is better than FF.

Both browsers are good.

Tute · 4 Jan 2011 at 11:47

Digitalle said:
I just cannot comprehend why all those people still use IE.

Because they don't buy into the media scaremongering?

IE9 is more than a match for FF.

mrk · 4 Jan 2011 at 11:48

It's not because it doesn't offer the flexibility of Chrome or Firefox via extensions. It's good but it's not "more than a match".

Tute · 4 Jan 2011 at 11:52

Sweeping statement #101 confirmed. Extensions do not make a browser.

edscdk · 4 Jan 2011 at 11:59

Digitalle said:
I just cannot comprehend why all those people still use IE.

because they dont even know what internet explorer is or that they have a choice, 90% of pc users will jsut use what is already installed...

to get a 10% share from MS is jsut totally amazing... considering every single PC sold has IE on it and the user MUST know how to use a PC to change it... so that keeps chrome out of 90% of the market...

however a lot of people will have accidently changed to chrome by allowing it to install when they downloaded other stuff...

mrk · 4 Jan 2011 at 12:07

Tute said:
Sweeping statement #101 confirmed. Extensions do not make a browser.

No they don't but they improve user experience and productivity to varying degrees and anything that improves those 2 things makes that product a better product than the competition - Or is that an incorrect statement?

Tute · 4 Jan 2011 at 12:08

That depends on the end user, surely?

[Edit] It's actually quite hard to find benchmarks of browser performance involving the latest versions of each browser. I guess that's because both IE and FF are gearing up for full releases of 9.0 and 4.0 respectively.

I still maintain that it's more than a match for FF though, having tried them all. I'd probably give the edge to Chrome out of them all.

Snooble · 4 Jan 2011 at 12:13

They have that splash screen thing on all new windows 7 installs though right? Gives you the choice of browsers. And the first on the list is Chrome. You have to scroll to install IE.

Anyway. Good on Chrome. Now maybe they can implement printing functions. (page setup/print preview/remove header/footer/margins etc)

mrk · 4 Jan 2011 at 12:16

Tute said:
That depends on the end user, surely?

I don't know of a user that hasn't found at least a couple of extensions that improve their web surfing experience on firefox.

Burnsy2023 · 4 Jan 2011 at 12:17

Khaaan! said:
I don't know of a user that hasn't found at least a couple of extensions that improve their web surfing experience on firefox.

I currently do not run any Chrome extensions at home (this would be the same for firefox if I ran that). I don't see any need for it at the moment.

Jokester · 4 Jan 2011 at 12:19

I've never felt the need to run any extensions on Firefox or Chrome when I tested it out.