[Curtman]

Google Chrome hits 20% global share as Microsoft continues browser slide

Quote:

Google Chrome's rise in popularity has been remarkably fast and it's just hit a new milestone: more than 20% of all browser usage, according to StatCounter.

Chrome rose from only 2.8% in June 2009 to 20.7% worldwide in June 2011, while Microsoft's Internet Explorer fell from 59% to 44% in the same time frame. Firefox dropped only slightly in the past two years, from 30% to 28%.

Chrome first hit 10% in August 2010 and was still at 19% in May before surpassing 20% in June.

If Chrome's numbers seem a bit high that's because StatCounter's method of tracking highlights Google's strength: attracting power users.

Death to Internet Exploder! Go Google!

[sandorski]

Death to IE for sure. Go FireFox!

[DanSC]

Firefox still has the problem of eating up more and more memory for no apparent reason. Chrome is the best browser out there, but I still need IE for some websites to work properly

[Regina]

What are the advantages of Chrome?

[DanSC]

Regina wrote:

What are the advantages of Chrome?

It does it's job while requiring very few computational resources.

[bootlegga]

DanSC wrote:

Regina wrote:

What are the advantages of Chrome?

It does it's job while requiring very few computational resources.

I thought it did, but the reality is it uses just as much resources (or at least it appears to do so in the Task manager).

I noticed that it uses your resources differently than IE and FF. They use one giant file resource in Memory usage (like say 250,000k or whatever), while Chrome breaks the system requests into half a dozen (40,000k each) requests instead.

I'm not a techie, but I assume that PCs can deal with several smaller ones faster than one huge one that chokes the system - at least that's been my experience in using each of those three.