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Chrome Nears 5% Market Share

Chrome is accreting market share at a quick pace, and will soon pass the 5% mark, according to data collected by Clicky, an internet analytics firm. Chrome, the browser from Google is available on the Windows operating system, and will soon be stable for OS X.

The browser is dwarfed by Internet Explorer and Firefox, and is still smaller than Safari. Given current trends, Chrome should break the 5% market share mark in the next week.

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Chrome recently turned one year old, perhaps it will be a belated gift, but garnering nearly one twentieth of the browser market in just a year is no small treat. I am partial to Chrome myself, and am happy to watch it find an audience. Google has on the occasion used the homepage of Google.com to push the browser.

Personally, with the forthcoming Chrome OS, and the advent of Google Wave, I wonder what Google is actually up to. Whatever it is, Chrome is the fastest browser around, and that is showing up in its market share statistics.

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  • Chrome rocks! After it came out I simply forgot Mozilla.
  • Same.
  • almost same, I still use firefox for its plugins like firebug
  • SnyderXC
    I love Chrome! I still use Mozilla about half the time though. (Parents' computer) I run the dev version, and it seems very stable to me!
  • I'm not surprised Chrome is on the rise. I ignored it for a long time, being a very loyal Firefox user. But when I tried Chrome... no looking back! I love its speed, reliability (one process per tab) and the clean UI. Being open source, I hope a lot of the good Chrome things will be taken up by Mozilla and worked into Firefox. For now, though, Chrome is "the one", despite its lack of certain nice Firefox features.
  • same here, ain't using mozilla anymore
  • sp
    great google
  • I've been running Chromium on my mac, and recently have been using Chrome for Mac, it runs great and is really quick. I like this competition of fast modern browsers, it allows new web applications to truely run like a desktop app. i.e. Chrome OS
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