{"id":23808,"date":"2015-05-06T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T10:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=23808"},"modified":"2017-02-14T20:56:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T12:56:41","slug":"chrome-browser-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/chrome-browser-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"How Chrome Won The War of The Browsers [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to StatCounter, Chrome still reigns supreme as the crowd favorite browser of choice, ahead of IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera and other browsers. For the past year, Chrome  led steadily at close to half of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gs.statcounter.com\/\">usage share for browsers<\/a> on desktop, tablet and consoles despite the common gripe about its tendency to crash and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/manage-chrome-memory-extensions\/\">heavy memory usage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is far from perfect but have you ever wonder why it is \u201cgood enough\u201d for so much of the Web population? This infographic by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudsolutions.co.uk\/news-and-events\/how-chrome-won-the-browser-wars\/\">CloudSolutions.co.uk<\/a> breaks down the many factors that help Chrome make its way up to the top of the bruising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/20-awesome-battle-of-the-browsers-artworks\/\">Browser War<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will Microsoft Edge, previously known as Project Spartan be able to dethrone Chrome? We\u2019ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/chrome-browser-wars\/how-chrome-won-the-war-of-the-browsers.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"6035\"><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to StatCounter, Chrome still reigns supreme as the crowd favorite browser of choice, ahead of IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera and other browsers. 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