In a recent Computer World article [read here] Chrome ended the month of September 2011 with 16.2% of the Browser market share compared to Safari’s 5% considering that Safari.

It is estimated that by June 2012 Chrome will also overtake Firefox as the 2nd most popular web browser in terms of percentage behind all the iterations of Internet Explorer (6,7,8 and 9 combined make up the largest % by far still).

This only looks like an increase as Chrome OS notebooks start gaining a little traction (very little albeit) and android devices continue to spread out like tribbles across users internationally.

I myself have converted to Chrome as my dominant browser over a year ago and haven’t looked back. In fact I have never even bothered to open my Firefox except maybe 1x per month when debugging my website or testing it for multiple browser compatibility.

As a web site owner, I often have to make sure my site operates on every browser you can think of and even with the market % being so small you have to make sure your site loads properly and quickly.  I have tested with Opera, Chrome, Firefox 6, IE9, Safari, Rockmelt (Chromium based) and several mobile browsers.  iChromy for iPad for example is another Chromium based browser.

In fact, if you look at the last 30 days traffic on my site you will see out of 87,032 unique visits that 27,997 were from users using Google Chrome!  Firefox comes it at #2 with 26,251 visitors while Internet Explorer is 16,001.

As my site primarily appears to bloggers and tech enthusiasts this would show you that most savvy internet folk have already made Chrome the dominant browser of choice.  Oddly enough I don’t know what Android Browser is, I thought Android only used a version of Chrome by default.

Mozilla Compatible Agent must be something like Flock browser I would imagine.

Have you looked at Google Analytics to see what browser type makes up the majority of your visitors?  Share your stats here with me, tell me which browser type most commonly visits your site!

-Dragon Blogger

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MSSE removed Chrome from nearly 3000 systems and caused a panic among the users of Google Chrome. In fact a lot of people became rebellious and started commenting it out on this thread in Chrome forums.This is not the first time a legitimate program has been marked as a malware, McAfee caused a even more grave issue when it removed a critical windows file (The file it removed is svchost.exe! ) which forced your Windows XP computer go into an endless reboot cycle.

If you are affected

Do not panic , the issue is really easy to fix

1. Update Microsoft security essentials to the latest version
2. After updating , Uninstall Chrome , unchecking the Also delete your browsing data button
3. Now Download Google Chrome AGAIN and install , Chrome is available for download free of charge here .
4. Enjoy your browser!

Did Microsoft Nuke Chrome intentionally?

It actually might be true! What has Microsoft to gain with Chrome going? Internet Explorer. If Chrome is taken off the computer and if the computer does not have any other browser other than Chrome , then naturally the users will have to use Internet Explorer. Though this seems like it would be a genuine reason, it is really most likely a simple algorithm error and completely accidental as Microsoft wouldn’t risk suffering the backlash of publicly and knowingly attacking another company product especially one as high profile as Google.

Another interesting thing users pointed out was that Chrome was marked as Zeus bot , what’s significant here is that the Zeus  is a notorious bot that steals financial information from the target’s computer including PayPal passwords , Credit card numbers and passwords. Chrome has been criticized for sending far too much information about browsing history and what is entered in the Chrome Omnibox.

What do you think about this intentional or not? And do you think Chrome is safe? We would LOVE to hear from you!

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As we wake up on a brand new day, we can always hope to see something new in the web world too. One such day was when I woke up to the newest technology called HTML5.  And here I am to give you some insight about the new born child in the world of web.

As we all know HTML5 is the latest version of HTML / XHTML and in the wake of its existence all the outdated web browsers that couldn’t support it are now forced to update themselves to fit into its new standards.

Mozilla and Google were the two amongst the first browsers to do that, duly followed by Opera, IE and Safari. Google was the first one though to release one that supported quite a few (not all though) tags of HTML5.

While IE has been lagging behind in the race to impress its users, Google and Firefox are way ahead and the war has already begun to clinch the pole position.

Now that the race has begun, Chrome seems to have gained lot of ground when compared to Firefox. When Firefox was way ahead after releasing its Firefox4, Chrome was in its build stage with Chrome4, but now though the tables have turned and Chrome is already on its way to release the stable version of Chrome 7, whereas Firefox4 is still way behind in testing its Beta 6.

Below research should help in giving you some idea where the browsers stand at this point.

Google’s Strategy and Chrome versioning

The hot news that’s doing the rounds in web circle is that Google has adopted a new strategy with Chrome Browser, which means we will now be seeing a new face of it once in six weeks. Now having said that, does that mean we are going to be seeing Chrome 9 by the end of this year? The answer is “Hell , ya.”

As I said before, Chrome 7 beta is on live and Chrome 8 is available as latest build. Wait there, they aren’t done yet, Chrome 9 build has already started and we are expecting Chrome 8 beta to be out this week.

Anthony Laforge, Technical Program Manager from Mountain View had recently said,

We’re 41 days away from the branch point for mstone:9 and we have 1236 open bugs, at the time of this note.  Given our open and close rates we will need to punt approximately 956 bugs in order to be ready for 9.0 which as a rule of thumb mean 4 out of every 5 bugs we have needs to be moved out.

Eye-catchers:

1. Integrated Instant Google search
2. HTML5 updates
3. GPU acceleration

And going by what Anthony had said it seems like Chrome 9 will take more days and may go live only by end of 2010 or early 2011. (That isn’t too late…is it?  J)

Firefox 4 and its Never Ending Delay!

One side we see Google Chromium team  is fully pumped up and going smoothly with their strategy whereas on the other side Firefox team is working really slowly towards Firefox 4 release ( it reminds me of the Rabbit and Tortoise story, and you know which one is the rabbit and which one is tortoise, don’t you? J )

How much so? Well, they are lagging by over a month now (and still counting). According to the official schedule Mozilla should have shipped the seventh revision of Beta on September 17th, then Beta 8 on October 1st, and have the first Release Candidate (RC) by October 15th. Obviously, October 15th has come and gone but there’s no Firefox 4.0 RC to speak of.

There are also quite hefty volumes of work still to be done For Firefox 4.0. Just 10 days ago, Mozilla noted that it still had to resolve 17 blockers just to launch Beta 7, and over 510 blockers to get from Beta to RC. In total Mozilla needs to resolve some 901 blockers in order to wrap up Firefox 4.0 and have it delivered to end users.

Eye-catchers:

1. Chromicised and more browsing space.
2. Faster than old versions
3. Tab Candy feature

What else to say? Firefox is well behind its schedule and Firefox 4.0 will be out by end of 2010 or early 2011 (what a joke…. U got to be kidding me)

Hot on the plates,

• Chrome beats other browsers in HTML5 test!
• Firefox scored less in its own Kraken JavaScript benchmark
• Chrome 8 beta and Firefox 4 Beta 7 are releasing this week.

Conclusion:

Having said that all, the big question that still stands unanswered is, who will win this war? (I can hear someone saying its Chrome, well not yet, it’s a crazy world out there and anything can happen over a cup of coffee). But there is no answer for this. All browsers are unique in their own way. But with the release of Firefox 4 and Chrome 9 already, users are in a dilemma on which one to make as their default browser.

Which browser are you going to use? Will Chrome steal Firefox users or Firefox continues acquiring more space? Share your thoughts and let’s fight it out in the comment box below! Cheers!

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This makes it ideal for tweaking WordPress blog themes where you may have a 1,000+ line CSS file and not know where to make changes to margins, alignments or other simple CSS code that allows you to tweak your blog appearance.

Google Chrome has an “Inspect Element” feature that when combined with the Firebug Lite Extension for Google Chrome you get almost the same feature capability in that you can click on any element and see the CSS and source file for the CSS code for that element, however you do not see which line # the element is in the file and this makes it more difficult to find and change the code.

So while you can almost get the same level of functionality for Chrome, you still lack some features with Firebug Lite for Chrome that you get in Firebug for Firefox.  Both versions of the plugin still allow you to make edits, add attributes and see the results in real time on your site without having to change the actual stylesheet first.  This is ideal for testing a new font size, background color or margins/borders around images and try to enhance your theme appearance and readability.

So if you are a blogger and occasionally dabble with modifying your WordPress theme stylesheets you can get most of the functionality with Google Chrome Firebug Lite, but Firefox Firebug still is a better plugin for testing and experimenting with CSS changes in that it allows you to instantly know what line to look at in your stylesheet file as well as it has a better hover over element feature that updates and shows you what you are looking for every time.

-Dragon Blogger

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This is what the output looks like if you go to one of my wordpress blog feed URL’s directly with Google Chrome:

This has lead me to do some querying and I came across one of the most important extensions for Google Chrome is the RSS Subscription Extension which allows Google Chrome to render and display your WordPress blog or other RSS feed inside the browser properly.

The RSS Extension for Chrome still doesn’t allow you to manually hit the dragonblogger.com/feed/ URL but instead when you are on any main page in a blog site now that has a feed, you will see an RSS icon at the top right of the URL bar. Select this icon and it will properly render and display any of the RSS feeds offered by that website right in the Google Chrome browser.

Results of RSS Feed with the Chrome RSS Feed Extension:

Bottom Line

If you need to read RSS Feeds in Google Chrome and check your feeds often, the RSS Feed Chrome extension is extremely useful and highly recommended. This Chrome Extension is the best one that I have found to fix RSS issues in the Chrome browser.

-Dragon Blogger

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