Episode 142 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves and Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #142: The Last Panel of 2011 (MP3, 38:18, 36.8MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary Here are the main topics covered in this episode: Chrome Becomes the World’s Second Favorite Browser Is Firefox Doomed? inessential.com: The Pummeling Pages JQuery Shutters Plugin Site Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/142. GA_googleFillSlot("InArticle_728x90_1"); Host Spotlights Patrick: SNL Digital Short: Batman Stephan: Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? – NYTimes.com Louis: Knyle Style Sheets — Warpspire Interview Transcript Louis:: Hello and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast, we’ve got a panel show this week, Patrick and Stephan are on the line with me, hi, guys. Stephan: Hey, Louis:! Patrick: Hey, Louis:! Louis:: Our newest member of the panel, Kevin, could not make it this week so there are only three, but we’ve got a lot to talk about so I reckon it will be a good show. Patrick: Yeah, we didn’t like him so we kicked him off the show, no, (laughter), just kidding, just kidding. Louis:: That’s not true. Patrick: No, that’s not true. Louis:: Kevin’s great and he’ll be back next panel show which I believe will be in the New Year because next week I’ll be doing an interview and then we’ll be taking two weeks off for the holidays. Patrick: Yes, two weeks vacation that we get every year (laughter). Louis:: Well deserved, it’s been a great year of podcasting. Patrick: Excellent, yes. You joined the team, so. Stephan: It’s hard to believe it’s been a year. Louis:: I don’t even remember when I came, when I started doing the podcast. Patrick: I don’t know, we’ll have to look that up, but – Stephan: We’ll have to look that up, yeah. Patrick: It was in 2011 I’ll tell you that. Stephan: (Laughs) Thanks, Patrick. Louis:: It was #110 on the 1st of May 2011. Patrick: May 1, 2011, excellent. So a good seven months into the show come January 1st. And of course you had been kind of the interview host in some ways; Kevin had secretly snuck you in. Louis:: Yeah, I’d done a couple of shows before that. Patrick: To do some of his work (laughs), and then we brought you on officially, so, excellent! Louis:: So this makes it the last panel show of the year so the pressure’s on, but we gotta kill it. Patrick: Yes, absolutely, let’s kill the show. Louis:: (Laughs) with that in mind I’ll throw it to you, Patrick, for the first story. Patrick: Cool. So my story is about Firefox, and Firefox is my browser, I still have not yet downloaded Chrome. Actually I said on this show that I was going to finally download it, and to test a bug, but the person emailed me back and said the bug has resolved itself (laughter), so I still didn’t need to. But plenty of other people are downloading Chrome because according to Statcounter.com it became in November the second most popular browser in the world, behind IE, and got ahead of Firefox; it has overall the market share of 25.74%, Firefox, both versions 3.7 and 4.0+ are down to 25.24%, so Chrome is up .5%, half a percent, and Firefox lost a full percent of ground, more than a full percent of ground in just one month with Chrome gaining .69, and I guess, finally, it’s been on a steady ascent, achieving that number two browser mark. And I guess one of the [...]