How is the Chrome browser "thud"? It may be nowhere near the penetration of Firefox, or of the combined IE penetration (IE6 through IE8), but it's steadily gaining market share.
It may not have been a home run type of success, but it's hardly a "thud" either.
I'm wondering this too. Chrome browser just passed Safari in user numbers... -- "What makes us omniscient? Have we a record of omniscience? ...If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning." -United States Secretary of Defense (1961-1968) Robert S. McNamara