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    Chrome passes 20% share milestone, locks up 2nd place


    Posted: 05 Aug 2014
    Google's Chrome browser in July broke the 20% user share bar for the first time, according to data published Friday by Web measurement vendor Net Applications.

    But because the browser war is a zero-sum game, when Chrome won others had to lose. The biggest loser, as has been the case for the last year: Mozilla's Firefox, which came dangerously close to another milestone, but on the way down.

    Firefox accounted for 15.1% of the desktop and laptop personal computer browsers used in July, a low point not seen by the open-source application since October 2007, a year before Chrome debuted and when Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) was only on version 7.
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    05 Aug 2014



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    Sad days indeed.
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    Does this include where Firefox is identifying itself as IE also?

    It helps on some sites
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    to Chrome + forks
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    As long as Firefox only strives to be another Chrome and Mozilla continues to be Google's lapdog I am sincerely grateful that Firefox is dying a justified and steady death.

    I wonder if we're going into another era not unlike when IE6 dominated the market, only this time it'll be a duopoly between Trident (IE) and Webkit/Blink (Chrome).
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    History repeats itself? (kind of..). I think that might just happen.
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    Hi there

    Are any of us actually bothered --who cares -- if you go into a hotel and switch on your bedroom light do you even KNOW who supplies the power and I suspect you'd care even less -- you just want the light to come on.

    Browsers are simply TOOLS -- who really cares whether X is better than Y or has feature A instead of feature B. So long as it works on your device in the way you want it to - choose whatever you want.

    As far as IE is concerned it's always going to struggle a bit in these comparisons as there are a lot of new mobile devices that it won't run on.

    I regard Chrome rather like Amazon and Google as the "TESCO/ASDA or WALL MART" of computing -- it might be ubiquitious like those Supermarkets - but you won't always get the best product.

    Choose what YOU like and what works for you -- these browser war threads are SO OLD HAT don't let's bother with them again.

    Cheers
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    Come, come Jimbo. Don't get so emotional about it. Its a news article, not a browser war
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    Browser wars
    If they were talking about mobile devices which they aren't android won already
    Really wasn't much of a competition,
    People are moving to Chrome don't know why don't care why
    Cheers.
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    I will never use Chrome, I have used Firefox since it first came out as Phoenix. Who really knows what users are using what Browser? If IE was not bundled with Windows , it would not even be on the list!
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