• Los Angeles Times, Thursday, September 25, 2008 12 PM

Not many people are trying Chrome, Google's new Web browser, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to Net Applications, shortly after gaining market share in the first 24 hours of its Sept. 2 release, the Google browser relinquished its small gains to the sector's top two, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox. Chrome's market share topped out at 1%, but has since fallen back to 0.77%, the Web measurement firm said. Net Applications records the browser usage of unique visitors to 2 million Web sites around the globe.

"Chrome started off pretty fast and furious," said Vince Vizzaccaro, Net Applications' executive vice president of marketing and strategic alliances. "Within 24 hours they surpassed 1% of usage market share which was shocking and impressive. Since then, they have been slowly fading in market percentages. The trend has a slight downward angle to it."

Mozilla CEO John Lilly said it was too early to draw conclusions about Chrome. "It's only been three weeks," he said. "That's not a helluva lot of time. We don't know anything about anything yet," but, "We are seeing lots and lots of (Chrome) users come back."

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