Day 2 for Google chrome

Google released its own browser on Tuesday, and yesterday saw the first full day on the web for Chrome.  The new program's speedy navigation, great tab handling and simple good looks have already attracted more than convert.

And here's the proof: after just one day on the market, 5.3% of visitors to DigitalVersus were using the new browser (dark green).

A natural shift from Firefox to Chrome?

We had thought that Google Chrome would pull in much of its audience from Firefox.  Even though it’s far too early to make a definitive judgment, and even though we’re basing this on the not exactly representative sample of our readers (who are all excellent people, nonetheless!), it seems that this early assumption is not true.  Amongst our readership, the number of people using Firefox 3 actually went up yesterday by 1.3% to 39.2% (red).

So who's going down?

Stock market, style, here are yesterday’s results:  Firefox 2 down 4.7% (light green); Internet Explorer 6 down 0.8% (dark blue and barely visible); Opera down 0.2% (purple).  Other browsers hung in there, with Internet Explorer 7 (orange) not budging an inch.  

Worth noting too is the arrival of the beta edition of Internet Explorer 8, which accounted for 0.1% of our readers yesterday.  Granted, the 90 or so people concerned represented a 527% rise from one day to the next, but Microsoft’s new browser Is very much still in its infancy.