If you take a look at the numbers regarding the browser market share over the past year, there are a few interesting observations:
- Firefox, Safari and Opera have neither gained nor lost any market share
- IE has gone down ~9.5%
- Chrome has gone up ~9.5%
While IE is still clearly the leader by ~13% over Firefox, these trends are somewhat telling. I believe Chrome is seeing its rapid climb due to the fact it is the newest thing out there and advanced users (mostly likely those that use Firefox) are giving it a try. On the flip side, IE seems to always be losing market share, so this isn’t really surprising.
What is interesting is Firefox has remained exactly where it is. Being as how it has been around for some time, maybe people are starting to jump ship for the newest thing (Chrome) or at least running a dual browser configuration. Safari and Opera combined make up ~6.5% so while they may be great browsers, they just aren’t significant players in the browser game.
Granted these numbers are accumulated based on a particular methodology, the fact that these results are derived from 15 billion pieces of data do give is some serious merit.
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It is not jus that Chrome is a new thing (how new is new, what?): Chrome is good. It is fast and convenient, which is why I now use it as numero uno. FF now only comes in when enhanced security is needed (with NoScript). Seems like I am not the only one holding this view.
I don’t see how people can regularly use a two browser setup. It just seems like such a hassle to keep bookmarks, passwords, etc in sync.
Firefox has all the plugins I use (NoScript, Flashblock, BetterPrivacy, etc.) so the marginal speed difference offered by another browser just simply isn’t worth the inconvenience.
In our google analytics reports we have seen an increase in Chrome browsers visiting our Sites.
We primarily use Chrome for all of our business.
Sam H
http://www.printingintegrations.com