Chrome replacing Firefox(blog.statcounter.com)
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Chrome replacing Firefox
http://blog.statcounter.com/2008/09/chrome-whos-losing/
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Absolutely correct - a two day sample has no statistical significance whatsoever. All it can show at this stage is that some folks are running Chrome - wee that is hardly a surprise given the level of interest from software development professionals.
It's certainly not surprising that Chrome is taking market share from Firefox rather than IE... the people who are likely to use FF are the ones likely to use Chrome.
What's more interesting about this data is the huge jump IE got on Monday. It makes sense, lots of people who are required to use IE at work might use Firefox at home on the weekends.
Of course this might mean daily browser market share stats are statically flawed.
What's more interesting about this data is the huge jump IE got on Monday. It makes sense, lots of people who are required to use IE at work might use Firefox at home on the weekends.
Of course this might mean daily browser market share stats are statically flawed.
My prediction is, that Chrome will take away market share from FF, for the mere fact that they are able to inovate more rapidly than FF folks. It's very well possible that two strong players will left in the end - IE and Chrome.
Do we really need headlines like this? This isn't "US Weekly" or "The Enquirer"...
Is it because most of developers, people with adequate knowledge about browsers use firefox and they are trying their hands on Chrome?
First of all, there is not enough data to prove that the shown variations are greater than the standard variation of browser usage.
Then, Chrome usage has not settled yet. I mean, who is going to give Chrome a try? My mom, who is using the-installed-browser, and is completely oblivious about alternatives? Or the Firefox 3 users, who probably tried Safari, IE8 and Opera, too? Every new browser will trigger an initial hit with those people just because of their curiosity. Then again, any new gadget will, so what's the point?
Let's wait some weeks (or months) and review the browser adoption then.