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Google Chrome Has 10 Million Users; Are You One of Them?

Source: Mashable!

Dec 11, 2008

Summary

Google has announced that its Chrome browser is now out of beta – an unusually quick transition for Google considering that Gmail still bears the “Beta” tag, 4+ years after its launch.

In the announcement, Google claims “more than 10 million active users around the Globe,” a believable number considering the roughly 1-3 percent market share according to various estimates that the browser has been able to attract so far (3.4% of Mashable readers use it too).

In addition to removing the beta tag, Chrome has added a number of new features and fixes over the past few weeks, like a bookmark manager and fixing the problems with audio and video (they simply didn’t play sometimes … whoops). Additionally, one of Chrome’s most requested features and its perhaps biggest weakness versus competitors – support for extensions – is supposedly in the works.

I’ll admit, I’m one of those Chrome users – most of the time. The lack of support for extensions and the audio/video problems force me to switch back to Firefox several times each day, but Chrome’s speed makes my workda

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