Ok, so Chrome has been around for ages now. Since it was launched in Beta in Sept 2008, I have downloaded and played with it a bit, didn’t really like its overly simplistic nature and switched back to good ‘ol Firefox. However since later versions of Firefox seem often to take forever to load, I decided to give it another go. And I am liking it alot! Its not quite my default browser yet, but the speed, simplicity, plus a certain amount of customisation possible thanks to the open source community, it is a Browser worth having installed on every machine.
Browser Wars
As of just before Christmas, Chrome had a market share of 4.63% worldwide, lagging behind Firefox on 24.6% by some way. I obviously won’t mention what’s at number one.
A recent high profile newspaper and billboard marketing campaign in the UK will only help boost this.
But my concern is the amount of websites I come across when using Chrome that don’t quite function right. By far the biggest is ebay – have you ever tried to create an auction on eBay in Chrome? It’s appallingly bad. I always jump back to FF for this. And it this kind of thing that Google must get to grips with, and shoudl have sorted before the big money campaigns! I will carry on using it due to the speed and light weight nature of the software, but am slightly narked that I have to use multiple browsers in my every day online life. Let me know of any other sites you have to switch back with in the comments!