Google Chrome is my favorite browser for frontend development and debugging. The built-in developer tools are fantastic and easy-to-use. But Chrome has some other less-obvious features that can make development a breeze.

According to a recent post on the Windows Team Blog, "the United States has joined the ranks of Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway in dropping below 1% usage of IE6" (emphasis mine). Global usage is at 7.7%, mainly due to its widespread use in China (25%).

Since the dawn of the internet, users have had to interface through web browsers to view and receive online content. Originally the average internet user had only a handful of browsers to choose from (IE, AOL, and Netscape) and at that time the decision might have been made for you based on your ISP(internet service provider) or your installed Operating System.

Google Chrome has just overtaken Safari as the 3rd most-popular browser in the US. This finding comes from StatCounter, an analytics company which aggregates stats from over 3 million websites.