Google Updates Chrome To Version 0.3.154.9
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... of data from secure sites. The updated Chrome has also benefited from some housekeeping and interface changes. The menu commands "New incognito window' and "New window" now always open new windows, privacy protected and normal respectively. The spell checker now works on text input fields and allows users to add words to the spell check dictionary. And file downloading has been changed to make it more secure. Chrome is currently a distant fourth in terms of market share. According to Net Applications , the global browser market share breakdown, as of October 30, is as follows: ...

Firefox hits record market share
TG Daily - All News — ... . Internet Explorer (IE) dropped from 71.52% to 71.27%, according to Net Applications , and remains the software with the fastest declining market share among a group of the six most used browsers. Since the beginning of this year, IE lost 4.2 points, while Firefox gained 2.99 points, Apple Safari 0.75 points, Opera 0.13 points and Google’s Chrome 0.74 points. The only other browsers that gained market share between September and October was Opera, which jumped from 0.69% to 0.75%. Apple’s Safari dropped slightly from 6.65 to 6.57%, Chrome from 0.78% to 0.74% and Netscape ...

Firefox hits record market share
TG Daily - Trendwatch News — ... . Internet Explorer (IE) dropped from 71.52% to 71.27%, according to Net Applications , and remains the software with the fastest declining market share among a group of the six most used browsers. Since the beginning of this year, IE lost 4.2 points, while Firefox gained 2.99 points, Apple Safari 0.75 points, Opera 0.13 points and Google’s Chrome 0.74 points. The only other browsers that gained market share between September and October was Opera, which jumped from 0.69% to 0.75%. Apple’s Safari dropped slightly from 6.65 to 6.57%, Chrome from 0.78% to 0.74% and Netscape ...

Browser Wars: Firefox in Striking Distance of 20% Market share
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... According to new numbers released by Net Applications, the market share of Firefox web browser averaged 19.97% for the month of October though it also managed to cross that 20% mark on several occasions ...

Firefox 'Porn Mode' Private Browsing Arrives
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... . It's a bit premature for congratulations, given that browser market share tends to be measured on a monthly basis. For the month of October, Net Applications puts Firefox's global market share at 19.97% . That's close but it's nonetheless not quite 20%. Check back at the end of November.

Is Apple Building A Search Engine?
TechCrunch — ... At first glance, the rumors make sense. Apple’s Safari browser has 6-7% market share, and currently uses Google as the search engine for both the standard and iPhone/iPod versions (unlike other browsers, you don’t have a choice). They also have a suite of personal productivity tools through Mobile Me that bring some hard core users to their servers daily. All of that traffic and usage equates to a lot of searches, which can be monetized heavily. ...

Apple Building Search Engine To Clobber Google, TechCrunch Hears
Silicon Alley Insider — ... "We've received multiple (if thin) reports that Apple is working on a search engine of some sort. At first glance, the rumors make sense. Apple's Safari browser has 6-7% market share, and currently uses Google as the search engine for both the standard and iPhone/iPod versions (unlike other browsers, you don't have a choice)... Also, Apple can't be super pleased with Google's competition to the iPhone with Android... But one important fact that isn't checking out - if Apple were building a search engine, they'd be hiring search experts and engineers. We've talked to a ton ...

Why Google Chrome Needs Add-Ons: Firefox Users Download 1 Billion (GOOG)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Google's (GOOG) Chrome Web browser has settled down to around 0.7% market share, according to the latest stats from Net Applications. Sad. ...

Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome Represent Two-pronged Attack Vs. Microsoft
Google Watch — ... If Chrome, which currently accounts for only .74 percent of browser users according to Net Applications, languishes, expect Google to continue to support Mozilla Firefox, and even exert more control over Mozilla to attack Microsoft. ...

With Chrome, Google Busts a Move Right Out of Microsoft's Playbook [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... For millions of computer users around the world, a blue "e" means Internet. The "e" icon representing Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser stares right at them from their desktops when they buy new computers. That's how Internet Explorer gained what was once more than 95 percent share of the browser market, taking that market share directly from Netscape, which once had over 80 percent share. Microsoft's share now sits at 71 percent according to Net Applications, which provides this informative graphic, showing market share: ...

Google Wants Chrome To Go Bigtime Next Year
WebProNews Feed — ... have them ship computers with Chrome pre-installed." Or pay manufacturers in order to stick users with the browser by default, in other words. There will be advertising campaigns, too, as Pichai continued, "We will throw our weight behind it. . . . [O]nce we get it out of beta we will work hard at getting the word out, promoting to users, and marketing will be a part of that."Google Wants Chrome To Go Bigtime Next Year Keep an eye out for some changes in the pie charts put out by Net Applications , then; Google doesn't appear to at all enjoy being just two spots above ...

How widely used is Chrome? More than I expected
Webware.com — ... Of course, CNET News has a more adventurous and techno-savvy audience than the average Web site. For comparison, I looked at data from Net Applications, which releases browser statistics based on the 160 million different people who visit a network of 40,000 sites using its Web analytics service. The company's data skews somewhat toward usage in North America and Europe, but it's still a more mainstream view of browser use than our site's. ...

Opera Earnings Jump On Mobile Browser Success (OPERA.OL)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Opera only commands 0.7% of the desktop browser market -- already trailing the much-newer Google (GOOG) Chrome -- which has 0.8%. But that's not where the revenue comes from: Opera is reporting strong growth in license revenues for its Opera Mini ...

Opera 10 Browser Now In Alpha
TechCrunch — ... browser market share, depending on what statistics you look at, and will soon likely be surpassed by Google’s Chrome, if it hasn’t been already. But it does have its fans. ...

Google Chrome, Out of Beta. Will That Be Enough? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Despite being available for more than three months in beta form, Chrome’s share of the browser market has remained abysmally small. According to some estimates, it has a market share of less than one percent, below Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Safari. ...

Safari 4's Introduction A Clear Salvo In the New Chrome Wars
louisgray.com — ... Almost 14 years after Netscape as a company went public, a new wave of browser wars is upon us. And while, yes, Internet Explorer, the standard on practically all Windows-based PCs, is still the market share leader, the innovation is not being perceived as coming from Redmond. Instead, it's products like Firefox, Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari which are pushing the envelope and working to enhance our browsing experience. Unfortunately for Microsoft, it's gotten to the point that even if they made a better product with all the possible bells and whistles, nobody ...

Three-in-one Web browsing with Lunascape
Webware.com — ... While exact market share figures change on a daily basis (and vary widely from site to site), Microsoft's Internet Explorer commands about 65 percent of the market, Mozilla's Firefox about 20 percent, Apple's Safari about 8 percent, and Google's Chrome about 2 percent. ...

Privacy Solutions Series: Part 3 - Internet Explorer Privacy Features
Technology Liberation Front — ... .) Despite these new challenges, IE still commands over 70% of the browser market. Like most other web browsers, Internet Explorer is free. So too are the features we are describing here. ...

Google Rumored To Be Breaking Up With Firefox
WebProNews Feed — ... Firefox grabbed 22 percent of the browser market, helping to shrink IE’s share from 90 percent to 66 percent. Google funneled money and support to Firefox by placing invitations to download on the Google homepage, and paid about $75 million in 2007 in referrals from the Firefox search bar. ...

Google Uses YouTube Clips To Hype Chrome
paidContent — ... Google made it a point to not call out Chrome's rivals in the clips. The videos hone in on the browser's own features in quirky ways (like comparing it to a pet or a roller coaster ride of knowledge), but it's clear that the company needs to drum up some new buzz if it wants to gain market share. Google launched Chrome last year amid much hype, but it hasn't translated to widespread adoption: its market share lingers at about 1.23 percent (per NetApplications), compared to Microsoft ( ...

Google issues unpolished Chrome for Mac, Linux
Webware.com — ... According to Net Applications statistics, Internet Explorer remains the king of the heap, with 65.5 percent market share in May 2009. Firefox has 22.5 percent, Safari 8.4, and Chrome has edged up to 1.8 percent since its launch in September. ...

Opera 10 Slated For September 1 Launch. Will Anyone Take Notice?
TechCrunch — ... The Opera desktop browser, contrary to its mobile sister, hasn’t exactly been adopted like crazy since its initial release back in 1996, even if it has been known to innovate the browser field with several useful new features over the years that nearly always end up in competing web browsers shortly after introduction. As of July 2009, usage data on English-language sites show Opera’s share of the browser market as being 1.97%. ...

Opera 10 Released: Its Turbo Is Fully Functional
TechCrunch — ... , Opera hasn’t exactly made any dents in the desktop browser dominion of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox in its thirteen years of existence, but as I’ve noticed Opera fans will even attack you for simply stating that fact. Well now that Opera 10 has been ...

Ballmer: Safari and Chrome market share are rounding errors, Apple is expensive
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... doing IE is not there. It’s their operating system. Instead of now masked as browser, it’s masked as a plug in basically to IE. So, you know, we’re going to have to compete like heck and you know, see where things go. The one thing that’s unclear is what’s the economic play for anybody else competing with us at the browser level. Is this all about kind of controlling the search box or is it about something else? Marketshare from Aug 2009 NetApplications Think the the IE Chrome ...