Will Google Chrome get more users thanks to Internet Explorer Problems?
Filed under: Computers, Software | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: December 16, 2008 | 3 Comments
Google Chrome is a free web browser that is hoped to take the fight to other browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Google Chrome is based on the WebKit layout engine and application framework.
The beta version was launched for Windows in September, and as of October already had 1 percent of the market share. A more stable public version of Google Chrome was released on December 11.
Google Chrome could see their market share increase over the coming days, a direct result of the Internet Explorer Problems, which we discussed in an earlier post. Read full details. Analysts have already warned that users should stop using IE and should use an alternative, such as Google Chrome.
We are not certain how much increase in browser market share that Google Chrome will see, but you can be certain that they will have more than 1 percent for the month of December. Internet Explorer’s share is about 80 percent, but that will fall dramatically if Microsoft does not fix the security problem fast.
Will you be moving away from IE, if so who will you move too?
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I’ve been using Google Chrome for the last month or 2. I like it and find it to be a fast browser. However, there are quite a few issues I do have with it:
>doesn’t have the google toolbar so no auto fill on forms
>tends to read websites i have developed wrong - puts the site to the left instead of centre- could be my programming
>doesn’t have the option to stop - doesn’t respond to the Esc key - it loads one of the forums I use much faster than IE but the trade off is I have to put up with everyone’s annoying animated gifs - so I tend to migrate back to IE so I can read the page without distraction
>I still use my old hotmail email account but can’t type a message when browsing it in Chrome
I like the fact it holds the most recently visited pages on the home page - I think Opera does that too
And did I say it is fast?
All in all I’l continue to use and hope that Google sort these minor but annoying issues out - when they do we’ll all be saying remember Internet Explorer? NO!
LivingMudFish
due to the problems with internet explorer I’ve downloaded and started using google chrome and it seems to be working well so far. congratulations to the google team.
i gave up on IE about 2 years probably more and switched to Firefox, its better than chrome and IE, safer, loads of addons, never has any problems loading web pages, fast. Just download Firefox don’t bother with Chrome its too basic at the moment