Chrome Web browser usage climbs for 20th straight month
The Google Chrome web browser gained market share for the twentieth month in a row according to recent figures published by NetMarketshare.
Total worldwide usage in June 2010 for Chrome was 7.24%, up 0.2% of global from May and more than triple the 2.4% recorded in the same month of 2009.
Safari 5 web browser released
This week’s big announcement from Apple was of course the impending arrival of iPhone 4, however, it was not the company’s only announcement.
Apple also released the latest version of its Safari web browser for the Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.
Chrome chalks up seventeen months of gains
The Google Chrome web browser gained market share for the seventeenth month in a row according to recent figures published by NetMarketshare.
Total worldwide usage in March 2010 for Chrome was 6.13%, up 0.5% of global from February and more than triple the 1.6% recorded in the same month of 2009.
Opera 10.5 Web Browser released
Norway’s Opera Software today released version 10.5 of its Opera web browser, which it claims is the fastest Web browser available for Windows computers.
Opera says the improved speed comes from the introduction a new a new JavaScript engine and a new graphics which means reduced load times.
Chrome web browser continues to gain on competition
The Google Chrome web browser gained 0.4% of global market share in February from the previous month according to figures published today by NetMarketshare.
Chrome web browser steals share from IE and Firefox
The Google Chrome web browser gained 0.6% of global market share in January from the previous month according to figures published today by NetMarketshare.
Total worldwide usage for Chrome was 5.2% in January, more than triple the 1.5% recorded in January 2009.
Latest release of Google Chrome features bookmark sync
This week on the official Google Blog, the company announced a new stable release of it’s Chrome web browser for Windows, which includes two of the browser’s most frequently, requested features: extensions and bookmark sync.
Extensions are little programs, created by developers, which add additional functionality to the Chrome browser. Currently there are over 1,500 extensions in the Chrome extensions gallery.
Firefox still gaining after five years
Firefox, the free and open source web browser from the Mozilla Corporation, turned five years old this week.
The browser, which is now available for download in more than seventy languages, is now the world’s second most popular browser in the world after Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
