Google Chrome's impact on Internet Explorer and Firefox.

The recent appearance of Google Chrome raises the question, which browser will Google Chrome impact the most?

I read once that about 85% of the $65 million dollars of Firefox revenue is from Google, and if Google Chrome eats into the Firefox share, then Firefox revenue will obviously reduce and that could be a good substantial saving for Google. Internet Explorer on the other hand now has another browser to contend with.

Whilst it has only been a few days since Google Chrome was released, and our logs don't really provide sufficient volume to give concrete proof, there are some interesting figures starting to appear.

Google Chrome according to the site statistics, has quickly gained approximately 6% of the browser market share. For such a short time on the market, this is a fairly impressive start. Put into context, this has already passed Apple's Safari and Opera. So far what I have seen is the Firefox market share has reduced by 10% and Internet Explorer by 5%, so the impact has been greater on Firefox.

I do want to reiterate this information is based on a relatively low volume of data for the site where the data was available and I consider the volume to be fairly small and thus the information is not conclusive.

From my point of view this means for those developing web sites, we may soon need to be checking the layout using Google Chrome as well as Internet Explorer and Firefox. As the creator and maintainer of the Australian English dictionary files used by Internet Explorer and Firefox users, I will also be looking at how to patch Google Chrome, so users can use Google Chrome with an Australian English dictionary.

I hope others find this information interesting and of value.

- Kelvin Eldridge