Instead of building its own Chrome browser, it was busy creating the Google Toolbar. The toolbar was an add-on for Internet Explorer or Firefox that added a pop-up blocker and easy access to Google search.
It acted as a Trojan horse to add extra features into browsers, and direct people to Google services. Google promoted it heavily on its search engine pages, and the pop-up blocker was particularly popular with Internet Explorer 6 users. As Firefox popularity grew and frustrations over Internet Explorer intensified, Google entered the market in with its own Chrome browser. Google focused on web standards and respected HTML5, passing both the Acid1 and Acid2 tests with the first release of Chrome — something Microsoft had been failing badly at.
Developers flocked to Chrome because it enabled them to build better websites based on web standards, and it started a consumer war of market share between Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. Netmarketshare , W3Counter , and StatCounter all place Chrome at around 60 percent of desktop browsing, with Safari, Firefox, IE, and Edge all far behind with up to 14 percent market share each depending on who you trust.
Whether you blame Google or the often slow moving World Wide Web Consortium W3C , the results have been particularly evident throughout Hangouts, Inbox , and AdWords 3 were all in the same boat when they first debuted. So why is this happening? A lot of this probably comes down to pure engineering resources at Google and other web companies, rather than a conspiracy to crush Firefox or Edge.
Mix that together with a lot of developers using Chrome for web development and the issues are obvious. Google moved away from WebKit and towards its Blink rendering engine years ago, and there have been lots of optimizations to open source libraries, frameworks, and other parts of the engine that cause bugs in other browsers.
Developers have also spent years optimizing for Chrome, and working around some of its quirks with Chrome-only fixes or changes. Google also controls the most popular site in the world, and it regularly uses it to push Chrome.
If you visit Google. Google has also even extended that prompt to take over the entire page at times to really push Chrome in certain regions.
Microsoft has been using similar tactics to convince Windows 10 users to stick with Edge. Develop for the web, not one browser. Otherwise you are screwing over your users. John Gruber, author of the Daring Fireball blog and inventor of the Markdown publishing format, warns there could be more of this to come. He has worked as a B2B and B2C tech journalist for nearly a decade, including at one of the UK's leading national newspapers, and when he's not keeping track of all the latest enterprise and workplace trends, can most likely be found watching, following or taking part in some kind of sport.
North America. Venerable browser Internet Explorer continues to have millions of users worldwide, despite Microsoft actively trying to wean customers off the software, new data has found. Mike Moore. See more Software news. Depending on whose numbers you look at the share of people using a Microsoft browser who are on the latest version Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 or later, with Edge as an option on Windows 10 is well over 50 percent and possibly as high as two-thirds.
I was surprised to see Microsoft Edge getting so much real-world usage only four months after its release, getting between 6. Net Market Share's numbers are down across all versions except Internet Explorer 8, which is unnaturally high. Take the differences with a healthy serving of salt. How long should you wait before deploying Windows 10?
Internet Explorer 10 - All three data sources find a rare point of agreement here, with this version accounting for 9. This release runs on only two desktop Windows versions. On Windows 7, the upgrade to Internet Explorer 11 is easy. On Windows 8, where it's the default, the only way to get a supported Microsoft browser is to upgrade the operating system to 8. Either way, anyone in this group should feel pressure to upgrade as soon as possible.
Internet Explorer 9 - Believe it or not, there are people who are perfectly happy to be running Windows Vista today. Some small but not trivial number of devices roughly 2 percent of all Windows PCs are running Vista. For those diehards, this is the last supported version of Internet Explorer, and it will continue to get security updates for another year. The larger problem is Vista itself, which will no longer be supported come April 11, Internet Explorer 8 - Here's another place where three different metrics give three wildly different results.
Somewhere between 5. This version was the last one to run on Windows XP, so that likely accounts for the lions share of this number. There are also corporate sites running Windows 7 that standardized on Internet Explorer 8 for compatibility with line-of-business apps.
If there's an IT pro in the house, these people desperately need to set up Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11 , which was built for precisely this purpose. Internet Explorer 7 and earlier - Anyone running one of these versions of Internet Explorer in has a real IT management problem, frankly.
But if the underlying operating system is Windows 7, it's not too late to move to Internet Explorer 11 and if necessary, turn on Enterprise Mode. So, come next month, more than 25 percent of all Internet Explorer users are going to get the very last security updates for their browser. That number will shrink as Vista machines retire and Windows 8 PCs get upgraded.
But businesses that don't move off of their unsupported Internet Explorer version in could face a world of hurt. Until Edge gets support for extensions with ad blockers and password managers at the top of the list , it isn't a contender for anything more than occasional slumming among heavy browser users.
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