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Dr Pete writes "Financial Times has an interesting piece about Lars Bak and Kasper Lund the authors of the V8 virtual machine in Google's Chrome browser. 'Chrome attracted more than 10 million users in its first 100 days. Although that's an impressive number, it still only translates into about 1 per cent of browser usage online. It will be a while before it can compete with Firefox, Internet Explorer and others. In December last year, Google announced that Chrome was now out of its development, or Beta, phase and is ready to be shipped as a pre-installed browser on some PCs. This could rapidly increase the number of users. Moreover, the European Commission's antitrust battle with Microsoft over, among other things, how its own browser, Internet Explorer, is integrated into its Windows operating system may give competitors such as Google a chance to claim ground.'" Interestingly enough Google Chrome is currently fighting it out with Safari as the #3 web browser on Slashdot.
slashdot browser / os stats (Score:4, Insightful)
Maybe I have imagined this, but I thought there used to be a slashbox which displayed OS and or browser stats.
I think it got to be a bit depressing to see the % of linux users dropping as /. attracted bigger and bigger crowds so that slashbox disappeared.
I doubt there is another website which has more linux users so the /. stats probably represent a best case number for linux market penetration.
Re:This will be a big help for server side Java al (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Linux and osx (Score:1, Insightful)
Just in case you didn't notice, typeface designs are NOT subject to copyright in the united states. So I'm not sure how msttcorefonts could be "non-free", given that they aren't copyrightable at all. If they are writing something else in their EULA, that's because they are lying / exercising wishful thinking.
i would find it highly ironic (Score:3, Insightful)
if an anti-monopoly ruling of some court would help the biggest search engine to bundle their browser preinstalled to consumer PCs.
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