Philippines: Google Chromed

Posted by on Apr 6, 2011 in Internet & Media | 2 comments

Abe noticed that Google Chrome has surpassed Firefox as the dominant internet browser in the Philippines:

The random sampling from StatCounter shows Chrome leads Firefox by a small margin. I checked with other blogs (non-tech content) and the results are the same.


In last year’s Google Chrome Event, it was mentioned that -

… apparently the Philippines is one of the top countries (if not THE TOP) that use Google Chrome.

I asked them back then WHY? The Google folks couldn’t really give me a straight answer. They think it’s the fact that the local web-developer community is close to Google.

What does this mean? Aileen is probably doing something right. Little things like the Google GEO User Summit that was held last week contribute to Google’s Philippine branding experience.

This has happened despite the launch of Mozilla Firefox 4. Regnard and team had a browser launch in Manila. They need to play catch-up in the Philippine Market.

Little things like missing a FireBug annoys web designers/developers.

ooof course, firebug still isn’t compatible with Firefox 4.

Chrome has something like this by default. Looks like Chrome’s play of by focusing on a fast browser that is friendly to web-devs and designers is working really well here.

UPDATE: Firebug should now be compatible with FireFox4.

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2 comments

  1. Mae
    6 Apr ’11

    heh, that time it was already compatible, it just didn’t get updated for some reason. You had to manually update the thing.