Re:IE10 falls below IE9 in market share
by broodbucket on Saturday March 01, 2014 @08:48PM
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Surely nothing to do with the fact that there's television commercials for Chrome, ads every time you go to the most visited website on the Internet, etc...
...and the nag ads on the Google.com homepage to install Chrome. It shows up everytime and general public accidently clicks on it.
...and Adobe Acrobat (Reader) that tries to install Chrome like "adware" - one has to be careful to opt-out on the Adobe website. Also many freeware and some open source like WinSCP come with this kind of "adware" like shady auto-installer and often install Chrome (opt-out is available, bit hidden in advanced options).
Chrome is the superior browser, easy to use, syncs nicely, great developer tools. I'd say that is probably why.
Re:IE10 falls below IE9 in market share
by broodbucket on Sunday March 02, 2014 @03:20PM
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Turns out "superior browser" is subjective. Firefox has great developer tools (the built in ones, not to mention Firebug). Firefox syncs nicely (and doesn't spy on what you sync). Firefox is easy to use.
For the vast majority of users, none of this stuff matters. What matters is brand recognition and stuff "just working". In-built Flash probably helps Chrome's case.
It doesn't matter which browser is "winning", the vast majority aren't picking which browser to use based on features. If Chrome is the "superior browser", why is IE dominating in market share?
Chrome had a pretty overwhelming market share before there were ads for it, didn't it
I don't think it showed them to everyone, but it got the ads pretty early on.
I wonder if any of the gain can be attributed to the bundling deals. Had to install adobe acrobat reader recently and noticed they try to install chrome and the google bar for IE
Also, if you're using an older browser on any Google web service they promote Chrome heavily.
Re:IE10 falls below IE9 in market share
by fauigerzigerk on Sunday March 02, 2014 @03:31AM
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They promote it heavily regardless of whether or not your browser is older. But that's to be expected.
Chrome has flash baked in; one less install/update to manage in large deployments.
Except when an upgrade to Flash breaks an important site for a lot of users. Then you are screwed. Reverting to the regular windows plugin would be the first change i made for a large deployment.
Re:IE10 falls below IE9 in market share
by moron4hire on Saturday March 01, 2014 @08:12PM
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I thought Chrome deployed on Windows as a ClickOnce app. ClickOnce is actually pretty awful for Group Policy deployments.
I'm guessing this has more to do with Chrome being easier to integrate into enterprise/group-policy-based deployment than anything to do with the choices of individual users, though. The only place I see Firefox on a PC in a "computer lab" or "thin-client" setting any more is when those PCs are also running Linux.