Deregular

Ever since the launch of Google’s new browser - Chrome, there has been a lot of hype surrounding the newest web browser on the market. Much of it in the negative, and much of it in the (ooh look how pretty it is!) *ahem positive.

I installed it to have a play, and to pretty much see for myself what type of monster google had created.

I have to admit on first impression, I loved the open interface, the color, and what seemed like a simplified, no bones approach to its primary focus… web browsing.

The all-in-one “search box” and “url box”, is refreshing, and particularly intuitive sending requests back and retrieving google suggest data.

I did promise myself that I would then uninstall. And I did. Thankfully.

Over the coming days, I began to hear news of its security flaws, and also being a web developer, I sadly missed my firefox toolbars.

Now, back on track.

In my eyes (dont you love it when someone starts a sentence like that… waiving all credibility..) there are about 4 different groups of browser users.

1) The general public
These guys dont give a hoot about what browser they have installed. As long as they can check their Hotmail, enjoy their facebook, and chat to their friends, they just use whatever.
2) The Tech Savvy
The people who are savvy enough to enjoy the more geekier side of the web, this includes gamers and such. More than likely a majority of these users are already using firefox, depending on their geek status.
3) Developers
Developers are similar to the above, while most use firefox, some still use IE mainly for testing purposes.
4) Die hard developers
The die hards are the fanatical, geeky types that honour the bible that is W3C standard. Usually run firefox, only have IE installed for testing, and love their Safari due to its standards compliance.

So far out of these groups I can only see 2 installing and actually using Chrome. The tech savvy who want to play with the latest toy, and the developers who are simply curious about what google are up to.

Soon enough the developers will give it up for favour of firefox toolbars, that coincidently make their life easier.

Leaving the Tech Savvy. Who of course, once the noise has throttled down a little will probably take it or leave it.

So where does that leave Chrome?

Probably with about the same % or perhaps a little less than the Safari browser.

It kicked up some news, but hey reality has to kick in at some stage.