Google Chrome – Where it Stands on its First Birthday?

On September 2nd 2008 Google Proudly launched its first ever Web Browser.

Lets take a sneak peak over the year of Google Chrome.Some Interesting facts about the browser

Since September 2, 2008, there have been:

– 51 developer releases, 21 beta releases or updates, and 15 stable releases or updates – Over 20,600 bugs filed (4367 of them were duplicates, 3505 have been fixed, which leaves a whole lot left to go!) – 11 external committers and bug editors, 46 external code contributors – 50 Chrome Experiments – 26 posts on the Google Chrome (Google Chrome) blog – 12 Chrome Shorts, a collection of short films about Google Chrome – A sequel to the comic in Japanese

More importantly, we’ve improved by over 150% on Javascript performance since our initial beta.

Nice stats, aren’t they? Damn, who cares about the developmental Stats?? What matters is the industry/market share. So in 12 months, how much ground has Google made? Well, not much! According to stats from Market Share/Net Applications,Chrome only has 2.84% of the market, far behind Internet Explorer’s 66.87% or Firefox’s 22.98%.