{"id":30616,"date":"2011-08-01T11:52:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T09:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=30616"},"modified":"2011-09-05T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T06:48:00","slug":"chrome-overtakes-firefox-as-uk%e2%80%99s-second-most-popular-web-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/30616-chrome-overtakes-firefox-as-uk%e2%80%99s-second-most-popular-web-browser.html","title":{"rendered":"Chrome overtakes Firefox as UK\u2019s second most popular web browser"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to web metrics firm Statcounter, Chrome has seen its share of the web browser market rise to 22%, marginally ahead of rival Firefox.<\/p>\n

Internet Explorer still dominates the top of the list with 45% market share, though it has been losing ground to competitors at a steady rate despite being pre-installed on the majority of PCs in Britain. Apple Safari rounds off the last of the major browsers, coming in 4th with 9% market share.<\/p>\n

While an aggressive advertising campaign saw Chrome as the first Google product to be advertised on British television, much of its popularity can be attributed to its speed according to Chrome Engineer Lars Bak.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeed is a fundamental part of it, but it’s also about the minimal design and the way it handles security. If you as a user try [loading] a webpage and it feels snappy, it’s really hard to go back. It has shown that people spend more time interacting with the web,\u201d concludes Bak.<\/p>\n

Read the full story over at: Guardian Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chrome has overtaken Firefox to become browser number 2 in the UK, thanks to an extensive advertising campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":28750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1567,981,167,983],"class_list":["post-30616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-chrome","tag-firefox","tag-google","tag-internet-explorer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33206,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30616\/revisions\/33206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}