Google Chrome different browsers on Google's own suite, commenting on Chrome's "decimating" of the other browsers, but he questioned whether Google's suite was representative of real programs. He stated that Firefox 3.0 performed poorly on recursion-intensive benchmarks, such as those of Google, because the Mozilla team had not implemented recursion-tracing yet. Two weeks after Chrome's launch in 2008, the WebKit team announced a new JavaScript engine, SquirrelFish Extreme, citing a 36% speed improvement over Chrome's V8 engine. Like most major web browsers, Chrome uses DNS prefetching to speed up website lookups, as do other browsers like Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer (called DNS
Usage share of web browsers According to StatCounter, , Chrome is the most popular browser on phones (or phones plus tablets). For tablet only browsing, Safari on iPad has 58.8% share, followed by Chrome, which inherited its engine and web standard support; Safari is not available for Android. When counting across all platforms, Chrome is the most popular, and if only desktop platforms are counted, it has more than half of that market. No desktop browser has had a clear majority for a more than a decade, since Internet Explorer lost it, with Netscape once holding the lead before that. Other statistics/analysts show similar numbers.