Chrome Browser Growing Faster Than Safari

Ed Sutherland ()

Chrome Browser Growing Faster Than Safari

As Microsoft’s Internet Explorer falls to just under 60 percent of the browser market, Google’s Chrome has jumped ahead of Apple’s Safari, indicates a new survey released Tuesday. Although Mozilla’s Firefox took the largest percentage of the market lost by Microsoft, Google’s Chrome took 6.7 percent, versus 2.5 percent for Apple’s Safari.

Internet Explorer declined to 59.95 percent of the browser market, down from its high point of 80 percent in 2008, according to Net Applications, which analyzes Internet traffic trends. Firefox picked up about nine of those lost percentage points, with Google’s Chrome snaring 6.7 percent of IE’s share (up from 0 before 2009), and Safari took 2.5 percentage points for 4.72 percent of the browser market.

Another company, StatCounter, lists Chrome with 5.35 percent of the browser market and Safari with 3.63 percent.

In late 2009, Google’s Chrome pushed ahead of Safari, placing the Apple browser in fourth place. Even before Chrome made it out of Beta, reviewers said the Google browser was 34 percent faster than the Apple alternative.

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[via AppleInsider and BusinessInsider]

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  • Blu Owen

    Is Facebook causing this shift to Chrome and Firefox?
    Many people on Facebook who play the games are posting that their friends should change to one of these browsers to effectively play them. Is Facebook intentionally writing their games to be optimized for these browsers? Makes one wonder.

  • BoxMac

    Chrome stinks.

  • http://www.metrokids.ca Conrad

    Chrome is not a bad browser. I tried to make the switch, but Safari’s Live Bookmarks always keep me coming back. No one does them as well as Safari.

  • brandon

    Chrome runs like crap on my iMac. Actually, both of my iMacs.

  • brandon

    Ps I was not saying that to brag that I have 2 iMacs, as I actually don’t, one is my machine at work.

  • Nathan

    I used Safari originally because of it’s syncing features with my iPhone. I tried Chrome and it sucked so bad on my iMac. I deleted it and haven’t given it a second chance yet, lol.

  • http://www.fort90.com/journal/ fort90

    I don’t know what everyone’s problem is, Chrome fucking rocks, Safari fucking sucks. Period. It’s far faster, much more stable, handles multiple tabs far better, handles Flash far better than any other browser out (save the “but Flash is dying” nonsense, not relevant to the discussion at hand) and being able to work with Facebook is definitely a bonus (though from what I hear it, that fault lies with Facebook, not Apple, due to some recent under the hood changes, though you’d think Apple would pass along an update, since it is a popular site and all).

    it’s essentially what Firefox used to be before it just became this big bloated mess that would crash anyone Mac, regardless of how much ram and processor speed they had.

    And this is coming from a guy who, for a variety of reasons, cannot stand Google and all their overrated garbage. But there’s one thing they have done correct and it’s this web browser of theirs.

    Pretty much the only thing that they can do to make it better is change the look, or give better options to do so, The interface is fugly and not very Mac-like, but I’ll take performance and stability over looks any day.

  • Gabriel

    Safari crashes or buffers nonstop when watching hulu, chrome blows all sites out of the water. I’m on a new Mac mini and only use safari to watch netflix now..BTW I’m on the net 7-13 hours day for work. Safari is to slow, period.

  • dave

    I used Safari for the longest time. Got fedup with it hanging, crashing and being sluggish.

    Switched to Chrome when extensions were activated. World of difference. Faster, more responsive. Far more stable on my iMac. The only thing missing for me is the ability to save pages as a webarchive. The one extension out that claims to do it doesn’t work.

    The only other thing I miss from Safari is how the webpage favicon is also the exit tab function when you hover the icon over it.

  • http://herreraco.comli.com Edgar

    I thing so,… its better,..

  • http://ihbs.co.uk Ben

    I find that on my mac mini (latest model) that safari is lightning quick, and chrome is no faster.

    So, if I take away the supposed increase in browser speed i am supposed to get with chrome, what am I left with?

    a browser with an out of place, non native UI.

    No thanks

  • king

    I must say that Apple are not doing good job with Safari , especially on the Windows platform. It has been some time, but google came along and grabbed a lot of users in a short a time.

    On my macbook, I find Safari as my main browser. Stable and simple enough, I have others uses for Firefox, but who said you can use only 1 browser?

  • Chris

    I left safari for firefox 3.0 because of the extensions when 3.5 came out, it crashed. constantly. (mostly due to flash, but safari never had this problem.) I switched back and forth between firefox and safari, because both had features that I wanted. (firefox had extensions and customizability, and safari had stability and user friendliness) I switched to chrome the day that Firefox 3.6 came out, and I haven’t used firefox or safari since. chrome has both of what I wanted in both safari and firefox.

  • skyeler

    chrome fucking sucks it always come up with the can not find webpage thing i perfer firefox cause i dont have to go through the bullshit of restarting it 10 times before i get the webpage i want

    conclusion : google chrome needs more work

  • sarath

    Mozilla is best

  • Mark

    Gotta say, I am very impressed with Chrome. I’ve got completely fed up with the constant stalling of Safari. Loading facebook is a joke. Have just switched to Chrome and it’s lightning fast plus all the extensions I use in Safari are there too.