{"id":13,"date":"2008-10-02T14:54:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T14:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cotsweb.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-10-02T14:54:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T14:54:30","slug":"google_chrome_reprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/google_chrome_reprise-13.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome – reprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well Chrome has been available for a month now and I have been using it off and on for most of that time.\u00a0 The only time it has failed me was on a page (on a chess site) which I have only ever been able to get working in IE, no other browser displays it properly.\u00a0 So I am pretty happy with its performance.<\/p>\n

But I am pretty happy with Firefox 3 too, and it has all those lovely add-ons like Web Developer<\/a>, fireFTP<\/a> and firebug<\/a>.\u00a0 As a basic browser Chrome is very good, fast and secure but without add-ons it won’t be replacing Firefox as my main browser anytime soon.<\/p>\n

I had a look at the excellent Market Share<\/a> website and I see that Chrome has settled down for the moment\u00a0 at about 0.7% of the market.\u00a0 But it looks to me like Firefox’s market share has taken most of the hit from Chrome’s success.\u00a0 This makes sense to me, people who have switched browsers once are more likely to switch again.\u00a0 Also Firefox is probably the most common browser among web designers and any web designer worth the name would have been using the new browser to make sure that it didn’t cause any of their sites to break.<\/p>\n

I imagine that it won’t be long before add-ons start to appear for Chrome, and hopefully not too long before it is ported to other platforms, perhaps including Android, Google’s new mobile phone operating system.\u00a0 I don’t think Chrome will stay as an also ran browser for too long.\u00a0 But at least I am happy that it isn’t going to break my websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well Chrome has been available for a month now and I have been using it off and on for most of that time.\u00a0 The only time it has failed me was on a page (on a chess site) which I have only ever been able to get working in IE, no other browser displays it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,12],"tags":[138,34,35,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}