Google’s web browser is growing by leaps and bounds. According to TechCrunch, the browser is now being used by over roughly 30 million people. In October, the browser grew at a faster pace than Firefox did. Granted Firefox has a lot more overall users but Chrome is still a new player in the web browser market. Google even has TV advertisement spots for the browser that is sometimes played on Hulu too.
The Chrome team also won a Founder’s Award for their efforts over at Google. This means that the team may get some additional stock options with Google. Overall Firefox has 330 million users and Google Chrome has about 3.58% market share. This means that Google Chrome is close to passing the market share of Apple Safari. If Google Chrome continues to grow at its current rate of 0.4% every month, it will pass Safari in February 2010.
Earlier this week Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) unveiled a new version of Chrome, the company’s web browser. The newest version has zooming that increases and decreases graphics and text. There is also now an auto-fill feature. The tabs can now be dragged to the side of the screen. The new version is the same as Chrome version 2.0.169.1.
Google also mentioned that the new version has better JavaScript performance through a new version of the V8 engine. “It’s 25 percent faster on our V8 benchmark and 35 percent faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version,” stated Chrome product manager Brian Rakowski.
Google also announced that they reached out to several developers and designers regarding the V8 engine to come up with experiments. Some of the developers have built games, art work, and interactive applications using the V8 engine.
Below is a video highlight of some of the experiments:
The vast majority of Mozilla’s revenue comes from Google. In 2007, Mozilla pulled in around $60 million thanks to Google. That $60 million translates to about 88% of Mozilla’s revenue. The default homepage on Firefox is Google. When a user searches Google using the default Mozilla homepage, Google pays Mozilla a share of the ad dollar made on each click. (more…)
The browser created by Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) known as Chrome has achieved a milestone today. After out 100 days of development and achieving 10 million active users around the globe, Google has removed the “Beta” label from their software. As of today Google has also made 14 updates to the browser.
Since Chrome was built, Google have improved the performance and plug-ins. Google Chrome’s speed is constantly increasing. Since the first release of Chrome, Google has been able to increase the V8 JavaScript engine 1.4 times faster. Some of the upcoming features that Gogole is working on includes RSS support, form auto-fill, extensions, bug fixes, security patches, etc. The announcement was made by Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson on the Google Blog.
Currently Google Chrome only works on Windows XP and Windows Vista, but Apple fanboys rest assured that there is Mac version coming on the way. The first version of Google Chrome was released in early September.
The Google Chrome team has released a new version of their browser software. The new version comes with security updates, top issues repaired, and a change on how things work.
Security
- Many pop-ups will spoof a user to close a window, but it turns out that it is actually part of the advertisement. A new feature has been created to prevent people from being fooled.
Top Issues That Have Been Repaired - Touchpad scrolling on laptops - Plugins like Flash, Silverlight, Quicktime, and Windows Media are now working.
- “Chrome has crashed” message has been changed.
- No longer store information from logging into secure sites (https)
- Improved reliability for those on web proxies
UI Changes - New tab/window/incognito window has been moved to a new menu called “Customize and control Google Chrome” instead of “Control the current page.” - Spell checker works on text input fields and words can be “added to the dictionary.” - Temporary downloaded files are called .download files. After the file saving is complete, the file extension is converted to the appropriate type.
To download the newest version of Chrome, click here. Download the newest version, then click on About Google Chrome and tell the browser to update.
The Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chrome browser is slowly penetrating the browser market and taking away users from Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. One of the major reasons why Google Chrome has not taken away a lot of market share from Firefox as of yet is because of it’s lack of script add-ons.
However, GHacks announced that a basic version of Greasemonkey is now supported by a beta build of the Google browser. Those who want to use Greasemonkey on Chrome have to place the scripts in C:scripts and the parameter, -enable-greasemonkey has to be appended into Chrome’s program shortcut. The scripts will only work on domains that are handled by @include metadata.
The creator of Greasemonkey, Aaron Boodman is also a Google employee. To download the Greasemonkey-supported version of Chrome, visit BuildBot.
