Chrome Mac, Linux Betas Push Browser into No. 3 Spot

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Article Source ComputerWorld
 
The release last week of betas of Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux pushed the Google browser’s share past Apple’s Safari and into the No. 3 spot, a Web measurement company said today.
Google shipped betas of Chrome for Mac and Linux on Dec. 8. Prior to that, only rougher, less stable “developer” builds were available to users.
According to Net Applications, which tracks the browser habits of 160 million unique visitors each month to the 40,000 sites it monitors for customers, Chrome’s share jumped to 4.4% for the week of Dec. 6-12, an increase of 0.4 percentage points over Google’s slice of the browser pie for the month of November…
 
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