By Jason Mick - December 12, 2008
The browser market is, according to some analysts, saturated. Firefox is making slow gains and leader Microsoft's Internet Explorer has waned slightly, but the pair holds the vast majority of the market. Opera also holds a small market share, continuing to eke out gains, as does Apple's Safari browser, buoyed by the increased in MacBook and iPhone shipments. Coming into this market, Google faced a tough battle with its first browser offering, Chrome. And while many lauded Google for trying new things with the browser, others criticized it for crashes and lack of certain features found in Firefox. While Chrome was expected to "kill" smaller browsers like Opera, while stealing market share from the big guys like Microsoft, the opposite actually happened -- Chrome slid from its initial market share, while Opera climbed. Now at last Google's Chrome browser is out of beta and is a full-fledged product. However, for a giant used to dominating every field it tries its hand in, the prospect of lack of adoption is a strange one for Google. In order to try to prevent such an outcome, Google has outfitted the final version of its browser with arguably the toughest security foundation found on the market today.
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