Kenneth Dreyer

Being the owner of a larger webmaster forum in Norway I figured I should do my duty to the webmaster community and report back on how well Google Chrome have been accepted among webmasters. Norwegians are normally known for being early adopters when it comes to the internet, specially the webmasters.

Here is the stats:

Firefox: 45%
Internet Explorer: 36%
Opera: 8%
Safari: 5%
Chrome: 3%

These are the stats for the last 10 days. I read a post from Patrick over at Blogstorm where he predicts that Chrome will be bigger than Firefox by Christmas this year. I would just say I disagree. Unless Google steps it up a few notches, there is no way they’ll reach Firefox’s market share by Christmas. Here are the reasons why:

• Firefox have fans, Chrome just have users.
• Firefox have been hyped for years. True Firefox fans (the same that actively promote their favourite browsers won’t start promoting anything new any day soon)
• Chrome is owned by Google. People worry about their privacy.
• Sneaky Google tried playing Big Brother, but changed their mind.
• The interface doesn’t look THAT good. Honestly.
• Doesn’t really play that well with JavaScript, yet.

So no, I don’t see Google Chrome getting anywhere at the moment. Sure, they might be promoted by the biggest internet site in the world, but believe it or not, that’s not going to be enough.

What are your thoughts?

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