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Re:Peak Chrome? Google's browser falls as Firefox, Internet ... by thauck on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @12:33AM (#4600627)
Two things:

1. I wish the author would define "market share" - is it % of users, percent of pageviews via that browser, or something else.

2. The adoption visualization really shows the difference between release strategies.

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Re:Peak Chrome? Google's browser falls as Firefox, Internet ... by deadhead on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @01:59AM (#4600758)
The article was using the data from NetApplications which is % of users. Most % of page views, such as StatCounter, still show Chrome as the top browser.
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Re:Peak Chrome? Google's browser falls as Firefox, Internet ... by btilly on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @02:44AM (#4600843)
Given the mechanics of Chrome prefetching, % of page views figures are somewhat suspect. (Yes, they try to correct for that, but are the corrections correct?)
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Re:Peak Chrome? Google's browser falls as Firefox, Internet ... by ksec on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @07:25AM (#4601464)
Wouldn't prefetching actually bumps up the page view?
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Re:Peak Chrome? Google's browser falls as Firefox, Internet ... by btilly on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @08:32AM (#4601612)
Yes. And when you artificially bump Chrome's page views, Chrome looks better.
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