Friday, September 2, 2011

Third Birthday of Google Chrome

Nor does it appear, but the Google Chrome browser is completing three years of life on Thursday, 1st of September. Presented with pomp and circumstance for its parent company in 2008 launched the program was shown as an option to Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, which dominated the browser market at the time. Bet in the simplicity of its interface and high speed as credentials to gain public sympathy.


730 / 1 day in their life, the program won 14 stable versions (the latter, incidentally, also launched today) and the preference of 23.16% of the navigators. In its early days the program existed only on Windows, and in 2009 their versions for Apple's OS X and Linux showed up. In addition, the browser also won two "brothers": Chromium, its open source version of Chrome and is responsible for giving life to Chromebooks, modest computer setup basically made to run applications on the network.

Following the trend of recent months, Chrome ended the month of August as the only browser users to gain among Brazilian sailors.

Figures collected by web monitoring firm StatCounter show that Chrome has closed the month with 31.35% of audience in Brazil (from 30.4% in July), while IE and Firefox falls were sensitive and reached 43.05% and 24.26%, respectively (versus 43.31% and 24.98% of last measurement).