Internet Explorer Out; Google Chrome In

[pioneer]

Internet Explorer lost 1.4 percentage points in market share as users abandoned the browser to try out Google's new open source Chrome

Internet Explorer users abandoned the browser last week to try out Google's new Chrome, a Web metrics vendor said Tuesday.

While Chrome accounted for 0.7 percent of all browsers used last week on average, Microsoft's IE lost 1.4 percentage points in market share during the same period, said U.S.-based tracking company Net Applications. Microsoft's browser ended the week with a 71 percent share.

Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari, and Opera Software's Opera also posted gains at IE's expense. Firefox's share climbed by 0.3 points, from 19.5 percent to 19.8 percent last week. Apple's Safari boosted its market share even more, from 6.3 percent to 6.7 percent, while Opera bumped up its share by 0.01 points, ending the week at 0.75 percent. Source: Infoworld.com

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[guadalrose]

BTW, happy 10th anniversary GOOGLE! is it 10?

[pioneer]

Yes, Rose, it is the 10th anniversary.

[kiamoy]

hmmm.. paspas pud?

[pioneer]

Better and faster than Mozill Firefox, Bem...

[kiamoy]

hmm..i hipe dili ana ka big..ako suwayan download here.. hehe
OT kuyamike! where's everybody? ate alet? lol

[G@Len]

 

i just want to tell you guys that this browser is a privacy threat to the users and some sysadmins call this thing as "self-inflicted keylogger". one of my proxy servers died early morning (around 1AM +8GMT) because of the huge outgoing traffic to this site: http://cr-tools.clients.google.com while nobody's in the office except for those support people.

another thing is that using this browser, google is monitoring your surfing habits 

oh bad, need to remove this browser out of my box at home.  i thought it's worth a try but seems to be a nasty thing just for the sake of business.

by the way, all the info that i shared came from my server log reviews, research, investigation and some security consultations with our security team and i'm convinced that this is not a better browser. i still love my firefox. 

Actual log from one of my servers:

SNIP START************

Domain: cr-tools.clients.google.com
Content-Type:   unknown/unknown

Path:   service/check2?appid={430FD4D0-B729-4F61-AA34-91526481799D}&appversion=1.2.131.27&applang=&machine=0&version=1.2.131.27&machineid={2609C59D-25A5-41A2-85BC-7FD366EB0A93}&userid={1D5ADD60-3939-4C67-8EE4-3A18CB324D2C}&osversion=5.1&servicepack=Service Pack 2

SNIP END************