Chrome becomes #3 most popular browser!
As a web developer I have to know which browsers people are going to use when they visit my sites. However, it also means that I've tried nearly every browser out there and can safely say that Chrome by Google gets my vote as being the best. Apparently it is beginning to catch on with mainstream America too.
According to Net Applications Google Chrome just passed Apple's Safari browser to take the #3 spot in the browser share market. Still a long ways from taking the #2 spot from Mozilla's Firefox (24.23% share), and even farther from the long-time leader Microsoft Internet Exploder (61.58% share), Chrome is the ONLY browser of the big five to have gained market share.
Ditch IE for Chrome
While it may have only risen 0.39% last month with the general public, Mashable.com, a technology and social media blog, reports that use among its users rose from 12.68% to 14.8% (a gain of 2.12%). What does this tell us? Well, taking the fact that most of Mashable's readers are techies, leads us to assume that more and more tech savvy users are finding and using Chrome. Which, I believe, means that the general population is not far behind.
If you haven't given Chrome a shot, and I mean use it...don't just install it, then you're doing yourself an injustice. Chrome starts faster, loads pages faster, runs javascript applications faster, and makes search easier than any other browser out there. It's also, in my opinion, the best looking browser out there with its new themes and clean layout. Add to this the many available extensions that you can install into the browser and it all of a sudden becomes almost as useful as Firefox without cluttering up the interface or slowing down performance. Here are a few more of Google's reasons for why you should be running Chrome.
