Google Chrome Browser
Google Chrome is a free, open-source web browser developed by Google.
Google Chrome Version Statistics
The following table is a breakdown of the Google Chrome numbers from our Browsers Statistics:
| 2010 |
Total |
Chrome 5.0 |
Chrome 4.0 |
Chrome 3.0 |
Other |
| April |
13.6 % |
2.5 % |
10.8 % |
0.2 % |
0.1 % |
| March |
12.3 % |
1.7 % |
10.4 % |
0.2 % |
0.0 % |
| February |
11.6 % |
1.0 % |
10.0 % |
0.5 % |
0.1 % |
| January |
10.8 % |
|
2.8 % |
7.8 % |
0.2 % |
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| 2009 |
Total |
Chrome 4.0 |
Chrome 3.0 |
Chrome 2.0 |
Chrome 1.0 |
| December |
9.8 % |
1.9 % |
7.7 % |
0.1 % |
0.1 % |
| November |
8.5 % |
1.1 % |
7.1 % |
0.2 % |
0.1 % |
| October |
8.0 % |
0.5 % |
7.0 % |
0.4 % |
0.1 % |
| September |
7.1 % |
0.4 % |
2.7 % |
3.9 % |
0.1 % |
| August |
7.0 % |
|
0.8 % |
6.1 % |
0.1 % |
| July |
6.5 % |
|
0.3 % |
6.0 % |
0.2 % |
| June |
6.0 % |
|
0.2 % |
4.6 % |
1.2 % |
| May |
5.5 % |
|
|
0.8 % |
4.6 % |
| April |
4.9 % |
|
|
0.4 % |
4.4 % |
| March |
4.2 % |
|
|
0.2 % |
3.9 % |
| February |
4.0 % |
|
|
0.1 % |
3.8 % |
| January |
3.9 % |
|
|
0.1 % |
3.7 % |
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| 2008 |
Total |
Chrome 1.0 |
Chrome Beta |
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| December |
3.6 % |
1.6 % |
2.0 % |
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| November |
3.1 % |
|
3.1 % |
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| October |
3.0 % |
|
3.0 % |
|
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| September |
3.1 % |
|
3.1 % |
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These statistics are based on W3Schools users.
What is Google Chrome?
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When Google decided to make a browser, they wanted to completely rethink the browser,
as browsing now is very different from browsing simple text web pages. Now we email, shop, pay bills, and run other large application in our browsers.
Download Google Chrome. |
What is different from other browsers?
Google Chrome is running each tab isolated from another, which prevents one
tab from crashing another. It is also more secure, and better for the memory; when a
tab is closed its memory use is eliminated.
Chrome uses a powerful JavaScript engine, V8, which makes large applications perform better.
The start page contains your nine most
visited web pages, a list of recently visited pages, your favorite search
engines and more.
Because it is an open source project, new features will be added, and other developers can adopt
what they find useful, in their browser.
Google has made a comic on how they made the Google Chrome browser:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
Google Chrome 4
Chrome 4 is faster, more secure, has better HTML5 support, let's you access
thousands of new tools in the Chrome extension gallery, and offers bookmark
synchronizing between multiple computers.
Google Chrome 3
Chrome 3 has a re-designed startpage (New Tab Screen), 25% faster JavaScript, an improved address bar, and better HTML 5 support.
The new design of the New Tab Screen, lets you rearrange your most visited web pages by drag and drop.
You can also choose to see your most visited web pages as a list.
Chrome 3 has better HTML 5 support, including the <video> and <audio> tags, which lets you play media in the browser without any plugins.
Chrome 3 has improved the addressbar. The drop-down list which shows you suggestions as you type,
now shows a small icon next to the suggestion, to separate Google search result, bookmarks, or if the suggestion comes from your browsing history.
Chrome 3 also lets you select different themes for the browser.
Google Chrome 2
Chrome 2 runs faster, has improved the tab pages, auto-fill forms, and has a full screen mode.
They have fixed over 300 bugs, which makes Chrome 2 more stable.
Chrome has executed JavaScript very fast since the beginning. Chrome 2 is even 30% faster.
Chrome 2 has added functionality to auto-fill forms and browsing in full screen mode,
which we have seen for some while in other browsers, such as Internet Explorer and Firefox.
One great feature in Chrome is the New Tab Screen, which displays your most visited web pages.
New in Chrome 2 is the possibility to get rid of pages you don't want to be displayed in the
Tab Screen.
What is new since the first Beta?
It took Google 100 days from the release of the Beta version to the full version.
In these 100 days, Google improved the browser, and listened to requests from the users.
Video is more stable.
Users had some problems rendering videos in the beta version of Chrome.
Improved bookmarks managing.
It is now easier to switch between Chrome and other browsers with the new import and export features.
Faster JavaScript. The V8 JavaScript engine is up to 50% faster than the
previous version.
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