Chrome passes Safari in browser usage2010-01-04 09:13 by DanielaTags: browser, Chrome, Safari
In its 15th month of public existence, Google's Chrome browser surpassed Safari for share of usage worldwide in December. Chrome usage jumped from 3.9 percent to 4.6 percent of usage, according to usage statistics that analytics firm NetApplications publishes based on about the 160 million visitors per month to the network of Web sites using its services. Safari increased from 4.4 percent to 4.5 percent. The Chrome jump came as Google released the first beta version of its browser for Mac OS X and Linux computers. Previously only a developer-preview version was available. Last month, Google had been scheduled to graduate the Chrome 4.0 beta version to "stable" on January 12, but mention of that release has been removed from the Chromium development calendar. One possible hitch: the Mac beta version and the present Mac developer-preview version don't support yet one key feature of the newer 4.0 incarnation of Chrome: extensions. That means the feature, which lets people customize what the browser can do to some extent, has yet to receive widespread testing on Mac OS X machines. Read more -here-
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