Chrome Usage: Did 90% of Last Week’s “tire kickers” come back for more?

The world is now looking at how the browser market share of Chrome is changing week to week.

Reports are coming in that Chrome usage dropped since last week. 

Gregg Keizer writes in Computerworld that users who originally abandoned IE and Firefox are now returning citing Network Applications report that of the 40,000 sites it tracks, this week showed Chrome’s share to be 0.77% of visitors versus last week’s number of 0.85%.

This means 0.08% less Chrome browser visits to the 40k sites.

Doesn’t sound like much to me, but I don’t discount the report. Clearly a huge number of people got excited about Chrome when it first came out and now that they’ve tried it, 10% decided to go back to IE or Firefox.

Another way to look at it is that 90% of the people who tried it during the previous week are still using it now.

It will be interesting to watch the market share as the weeks progress. 

Gregg’s full article is here.

“Chrome Lite” On T Mobile’s Android Phone

T Mobile and Google unveiled their G1 phone, the first to use the Android operating system, a version of Chrome and apps.

During the press conference, the question came up about whether the G1 would use Chrome and the answer came back, “Yes, call it Chrome Lite”. 

There are numerous stories about the press conference which took place in NYC at 10:30am eastern time. 

Engadget.com seems to have one of the better sets of coverage with multiple reports and great pictures.

Web 2.0 Expo reveals more Chrome Goodness

Darryl K. Taft of eWeek, delivers a great summary of the Web 2.0 Expo’s “The Future of Browsers” session.

Highlights include:

• Google to support add-ons like Firefox and Greasemonkey scripts (the founder of GreaseMonkey now works on the  Chrome team).
• A discussion of developer discontent on the lack of standards for browsers.
• Whether or not browsers have become more important than the OS when writing applications.
• Plenty of helpings of “do no evil” from Google when asked about their goals for Chrome.

See Darryl K. Taft’s full article here.

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