Like Billy Whizz on a bag of Columbian marching powder, Google’s internet browser Chrome has zipped past Apple’s Safari for the first time in the US to grab third place in the browser market.
Curiously absent from yesterday’s WWDC10 keynote speech by Steve Jobs was any mention of the expected update to their Safari browser.
Instead, a press release came shuffling out from Apple after the event, with the all-new Safari 5 promising a claimed 30 percent performance improvement its predecessor.
Bingo!
Just like the iPhone 4, Microsoft’s Bing search engine has also moved into town as one of the search engine options.
Apple say that Safari 5 comes with improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies for serving up create rich, dynamic websites.
Once the mighty, all-conquering colossus of internet browsers, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continues to lose its market share, with new data on browser use trends revealing that it’s now used by less than 6 out of 10 surfers.
Boosted by an expensive advertising campaign which included full size billboard posters (the London tube’s plastered with ‘em), newspaper, magazine and TV adverts, Google’s Chrome browser has overtaken Apple’s Safari for the first time.
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