Despite gaining momentum, Google Chrome adoption is still far behind Firefox's 330 million users!
At the Googleplex this morning, Google vice-president of product management Sundar Pichai started the Google Chrome OS press conference with an update on the search engine Web browser:
- Since launch, 14 months ago, 40 million people are now using Google Chrome as their main Web browser. Although this sounds like a big number, it’s not. To put it in perspective, Firefox added 30 million users in 8 weeks last month!
- Google Chrome has been updated more than 20 times through seamless auto updates;
- Javascript is 38 times faster than Internet Explorer. An important benchmark for Web 2.0 applications that make heavily use of AJAX;
- HTML 5 support.
Pichai also mentioned about 3 more announcements that Google will be making by the end of this year regarding Chrome:
- Release of the Mac version
- and the Linux version;
- Release of Extensions, which are similar to plug-ins.
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