Then as now, you could have made the case that the toolbar was superflous, but that didn’t stop people from really, really wanting a Google Toolbar for Chrome. Three years ago, when Google’s Chrome browser was brand new, I wrote about the fact that there was no Google Toolbar for it. But I suspect the absence of a Google Toolbar for the world’s second most-used browser will send a lot of people into a tizzy. On a purely rational level, it may be right about that. Google’s official rationale? Firefox has added features which render the toolbar irrelevant. It works on versions of the browser up to 4, but won’t ever run with the new version 5 and beyond. Stephen Shankland of Cnet is reporting that Google has ceased development of the Google Toolbar for Firefox. (We’re small enough that there’s plenty of flux in the rankings things could be different next month.) Chrome is already the top browser amongst youse guys: Safari is #3 at 20.31 percent, and IE is #4 at 19.07 percent. Those numbers are eerily close to the stats at Technologizer for the past month: 26.05 percent of you have used Chrome to visit us, and 25.06 percent have used Firefox. If the trends established thus far this year continue, Chrome will come close to matching Firefox’s usage share in November, then pass its rival in December, when Chrome will account for approximately 26.6% of all browsers and Firefox will have a 25.3% share. (Internet Explorer remains the top dog, but its share, which once surpassed ninety percent, continues to drop.) Posted by Harry McCracken on Septemat 9:19 amĬomputerworld’s Gregg Keizer reports that Web analytics company StatCounter thinks that Google’s Chrome will pass Firefox to become the world’s second most popular browser by December. Fodder for further discussion: How well is it translating that money into a better Firefox (and other products), better Web technologies, and a better Web, period? That makes it a rather well-funded non-profit. In its 2010 fiscal year, by the way, Mozilla made $123 million, mostly from search revenues from Google and other partners. Until this renewal deal was signed, people wondered about a disastrous scenario in which the Firefox product was essentially defunded. The money that funds Firefox comes principally from all the clicks by Firefox users who use Google in the browser. “Under this multi-year agreement, Google Search will continue to be the default search provider for hundreds of millions of Firefox users around the world,” said Gary Kovacs, CEO, Mozilla. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years. We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. Posted by Harry McCracken on Decemat 11:39 amįrom Mozilla, news that makes me say “whew”:
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