Tag Archives: browsers

Installing Google Chrome – openSUSE Fedora Repository RPM

Recently someone emailed me and said they couldn’t get Google Chrome installed on their openSUSE 11 box. So I decided to write up a little installation using Google’s repository and zypper (zypper for opensuse and yum for fedora).
To setup the repository in openSUSE add the repository with:
You can then install google chrome with:
or
Unstable are snapshot builds of Chrome, whereas Beta are more structured and tested [ continue reading... ]

Chrome and Opera usage expands at the expense of IE

In the latest trending release from marketshare.net an interesting market share hit to IE and Safari took place in the month of November.
Here are some statistics from Jan 2009 to Nov 2009.
You can see that Opera is nearly flat for the year, while Chrome has had over a 150% increase in usage, and the biggest drops come from IE, and month over month [ continue reading... ]