Chrome Captures 1% Market Share In Just Nine Hours

CadCrazy · 04-09-2008, 05:12 PM

Chrome, Google's new browser, has really started with a bang. It has managed to capture over 1% of the market share in just 10 hours of its launch, writes TG Daily. The hourly tracking of Chrome on Market Share has revealed that Chrome passed 0.5% in just 2 hours. By midnight (EDT) it had surpassed 1% of the market share. By next day 4 a.m., it actually hit 1.48% share, after which it continued at 1% for the rest of the day.

Capturing 1% of the market share hasn't really come as a surprise, considering the leadership position that Google enjoys in the consumer Internet space, plus the attention the browser received in the past two days. However, we cannot ignore the fact that 1% share is a huge piece of the pie, but only time will tell if Chrome will be able to maintain the same growth rate as the novelty wears off.

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nvidia · 04-09-2008, 05:16 PM

Getting 1% market share isn't a big deal for Google. How they maintain their market share after a month will be interesting to note.

Krazy_About_Technology · 05-09-2008, 02:03 PM

Dunno about market share but i uninstalled it the moment i read their EULA in detail. Scary, it is

. I cannot feel good about this browser while knowing that anything that i enter in it can be used by Google. IE8 Beta2 as my primary browser + Firefox 3.01 + Opera work great for me.

**MetalheadGautham** · 05-09-2008, 03:13 PM

It has captured such a high market share already mainly because of its extremely light weight. It has only those features that are required, and at the same time it implements those features very well.

nvidia · 05-09-2008, 03:44 PM

2.578% now.. Source
Could take over Safari in week if growth continues.

plsoft · 05-09-2008, 03:52 PM

Maybe its cos everyone wants to try it out since it's from google

. I don't think those 1/2.578% of users use it as their primary browser. For me it's no the privacy thing, it just doesn't ring a bell.

aytus · 05-09-2008, 04:09 PM

personally.. ifeel ok with this browser.. i dont care s**t about privacy .. cause google already knows a lot of me by orkut. and stuff. as per browser. i feel its great and really lets you do what u want from a browser. and yep.. i guess i was also downloadin it in the first two hours of its launch.. and by guessing at the speed it was installing with at that time.. 1percent seems realistic. hope the speed has improved now.

krazzy · 05-09-2008, 04:45 PM

I think it's just the initial period where everyone is trying it out to see what all the fuss is about. After they realise that Chrome offers hardly anything worthwhile over their current browser they'd all go back and the numbers will fall.

The Conqueror · 05-09-2008, 04:56 PM

Yeah this was normal, due to simple fact that 90% of internet users use google as their search engine and approximately 60% people will download chrome. This is just an estimate which i made,nevertheless this is a good start for a newly launched web browser

goobimama · 05-09-2008, 05:21 PM

Its just cause of people testing the browser out. False positive I say.

4T7 · 06-09-2008, 07:48 PM

Duh no match for FX

apoorva84 · 07-09-2008, 03:04 PM

i tried the portable version of chrome...was impressed with the speed, especially gmail loading speed...but didnt feel like sticking on to it...FF3 is good enough for me...

Krazy_About_Technology · 07-09-2008, 04:31 PM

Had they made any amendments to their EULA?

kumarmohit · 07-09-2008, 06:08 PM

Hey apoorva where did you get the portable version? It is the reason that I have not touched chrome yet!

manas · 08-09-2008, 10:11 AM

You can get the portable version of Chrome at :

http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/2008/09/...chrome-021510/

alsiladka · 08-09-2008, 11:57 AM

Dude, 1% of the user trying out a beta product does not mean that the market share has been altered. It is just beta testing!!
Market share can be counted once the browser is in the market for months and the period of considerations is in months, not a few hours.

chandru.in · 08-09-2008, 06:15 PM

Few things making Chrome a solid browser for me (from using it at office).

No non-sense UI (not even a title bar Wow!).
Lighting fast JS. Let internet remain open without forcing multitude of nasty proprietary plugins for fast RIAs.
Light weight (consequence of no non-sense design I feel).
Excellent standards compatibility (nothing special to chrome but not a negative either).
Using open-source components and releasing under open-source. Google has also thanked Mozilla and Webkit in its Chrome comic book.

Only irritation about it is non-availability of Linux version. But Google has promised a Linux version and has promised to notify me on release.

ax3 · 08-09-2008, 06:18 PM

chrome = ie+ff+opera+safari .......

so y install it ?

chandru.in · 08-09-2008, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ax3

chrome = ie+ff+opera+safari .......

so y install it ?

Because it is not "IE, FF, Opera, Safari".

But you forgot V8 seriously it is a superb JS engine. A highly interactive AJAX app which I have been developing, sucks on IE, rocks on FF and screams on Chrome (my personal experience). Since Google is a huge lover of AJAX and JS, I guess their prime motive in Chrome was superb JS.

If JS execution speed is continuously improved by FF and Chrome while remaining standards compliant, we need no Flash or Silverlight for more than 90% of enterprise RIAs.

goobimama · 08-09-2008, 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ax3

chrome = ie+ff+opera+safari .......

so y install it ?

The answer lies in your very statement. It incorporates all the other browsers so yes, use it!

Anyway, you forgot some math in there. Chrome = ie+ff+opera+safari-a of other things.

**MetalheadGautham** · 08-09-2008, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goobimama

The answer lies in your very statement. It incorporates all the other browsers so yes, use it!

Anyway, you forgot some math in there. Chrome = ie+ff+opera+safari-a of other things.

+1.

Its simple and has only the bare essential features everyone needs. But it implements these essentials splendidly. Nothing can beat that.

I am DEFINITELY going to install it on Arch when it comes. Imagine the speed I can get when firefox on arch is as fast as chrome on XP. And yeah, firefox on XP is sloooow compared to chrome.

But I wish we see a port of Chrome to good old KHTML (WebKit ka baap) for KDE.

KHTML still feels fast compared to others to me.

gary4gar · 09-09-2008, 10:27 AM

The market share is false thingy as more & more poeple are just "checking out" what the hype it all about.
We all know Google loves BETA, 1 product in stable and 99 in BETA. thats google

Lot of work needs to done on this Piece of code, lots of essential features are still missing.
like full screen view,Extensions,Cross platform etc