Google Chrome has 20% global market share

Re:Google Chrome has 20% global market share by dannylipsitz on Friday July 01, 2011 @10:11AM (#2718386)

I'm sold on Google Chrome, but it's frustrating that some sites aren't available on Chrome and I'm forced to used Firefox and Safari from time to time. Does that qualify me as a user of all three, thereby inflating the statistics?

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Re:Google Chrome has 20% global market share by marknutter on Friday July 01, 2011 @10:17AM (#2718411)

What sites aren't available on Google Chrome?

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Re:Google Chrome has 20% global market share by zwentz on Friday July 01, 2011 @10:23AM (#2718433)

Just the ones that you rarely have to deal with, but you do have to deal with. Like your insurer's site, your bank's, if you're in college and you have to take tests online, that too.

Bank sites are just terrible in general. Why is my least secure password always on a bank site? Shouldn't they have the highest requirements as far as security goes?

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Re:Google Chrome has 20% global market share by rdtsc on Friday July 01, 2011 @10:41AM (#2718496)

Is is possible to spoof the user agent and fool the server into thinking you user Firefox?

Some of those places just hard-code the possible choices of compatible browsers, and that list is 5+ years old. Once in a while I still see sites that advertise their support for Netscape.

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Re:Google Chrome has 20% global market share by joelhaus on Friday July 01, 2011 @03:58PM (#2719919)

Time Warner Cable -> Bill Pay will not allow the site to load in Chrome. Then again, infrastructure operator interests are not generally aligned with Google's (an open web and TV over IP).

On a related note, it doesn't look as if there is a good user agent switcher in the Chrome Web Store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search?hl=en-US&q=use...). Does anyone know if the extension API can modify Chrome HTTP headers? Firefox has a pretty good add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-sw...

UPDATE: Upon further inspection, looks like this experimental API does the trick: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/dev/experimental.we...

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Re:Google Chrome has 20% global market share by joejohnson on Friday July 01, 2011 @10:26AM (#2718446)

Yeah, occasionally educational software (like taking a test online or something) will render incorrectly in Chrome. I don't know why this is, but some old web apps use hacks that are not standards compliant.

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Re:Google Chrome has 20% global market share by zheng on Friday July 01, 2011 @02:02PM (#2719416)

FAFSA, which every college student who wants financial aid must fill out.

(FWIW, they support Chrome through something like version 9, but nothing newer...)

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Re:Google Chrome has 20% global market share by tomjen3 on Friday July 01, 2011 @02:12PM (#2719467)

My bank didn't use to work properly but even they got around to fix that.

And my bank sucks.

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Re:Google Chrome has 20% global market share by portman on Friday July 01, 2011 @02:22PM (#2719525)

Silicon Valley Bank

ADP Payroll

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Re:Google Chrome has 20% global market share by cletus on Friday July 01, 2011 @10:48AM (#2718532)

I occasionally get this, most recently I think with conEdison. The solution is a plugin to pretend to be different browsers.

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