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Google Chrome has only been in the wild a few days now, but it already seems to be impacting on FireFox’s user base.

Browser usage stats from around the globe seem to have an overwhelming similarity. Internet Explorer grows its user base as does Google Chrome, while FireFox seems to be losing users.

Here are some examples:

http://blog.statcounter.com/2008/09/chrome-whos-losing
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/08/early-stats-google-chrome-hurts-firefox-not-ie/

As I mentioned in my first post about Google Chrome, I don’t see many joe soaps installing it.

The next question is, how many geeks will use it over Firefox in the long run? I would hazard a guess… very little.

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The news broke last night unofficially on a blog (yeah right), that Google have or will be launching a new browser today.

Named Google Chrome, it is apparently faster, more secure, more reliable and more feature rich than any browser we are used to.

So where is it? Where can we get our hands on it?
http://www.google.com/chrome is the place apparently, but its giving a 404 not found error. [EDIT: Not anymore - it's live and ready to be downloaded... so what ye waiting for?]

You can find out more about this browser by visiting www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome.

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According to Market Share, the release of Firefox 3 has helped the much loved browser break over the 19% market share barrier. They reckon the release grew its worldwide use by as much as 4%, mostly at the expense of poor old Internet Explorer.

Apparently over the same period, Apple’s Safari browser has seen its market share rise to over 6%.

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