Another win for Chrome Browser: France and Germany warn against Microsoft IE

When it rains it pours.

First Germany, now France are warning their citizens to find an alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Germany recommends users switch to Firefox or Chrome.

It’s true all browsers have security flaws, but to have 2 national governments speak out against your browser? That says something.

Whatever ultimately happens, Google’s browser share just got a shot in the arm.

Full BBC article by Jonathan Fildes is here.

Chrome Browser Shows 4.62% Growth In Market Share on www.chromevoice.com

(see chart below)

Looks like the world is jumping on the reports of the Google Chrome browser’s small market share drop over the last week.

The news was the opposite for “The Chrome Voice”.

Here at www.chromebrowser.com, we saw an increase of 4.62% for Chrome.

Sure we’re a small site with a very targeted topic, but the change has been significant. 

Since last week, the numbers actually show an increase for both Chrome and Safari, but a loss for IE, Firefox, Opera, Mozilla and Seamonkey.

Since I last measured on 9/17/08, here’s how things have changed:

• Chrome usage rose from 45.69% to 50.31%
   
• Firefox usage fell from 34.01% to 33.07%
   
• IE usage fell from 15.74% to 12.23%
   
• Safari usage rose from 2.03% to 2.66%
   
• Opera usage fell from 1.52% to 1.41%
   
• Both Mozilla and Seamonkey dropped from 0.51% to 0.16%
   

The 9/23/08 stats for www.chromevoice.com are:

1.	Chrome		50.31%
2.	Firefox		33.07%
3.	Internet Explorer		12.23%
4.	Safari		2.66%
5.	Opera		1.41%
6.	Mozilla		0.16%
7.	SeaMonkey		0.16%

 

It will be interesting to watch both the trend here at www.chromebrowser.com and the larger trends tracked by others world wide.

Firefox Extension: Open In Google Chrome Version 1.0

Thanks to Digital Inspiration for creating the extension “Open In Google Chrome Version 1.0″.

Once you install this extension into Firefox, you can easily open up your current page in Chrome.

As an extra bonus feature, you can configure it so that certain pages like Gmail always open in Chrome.

Download the extension here.

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