Google's Chrome Browser Used More Than Firefox

[Kross]

Is that because Chrome is getting tight or because Firefox is turning to crap?

It's because Chrome is newer (early adopter Google "beta" crowd) and has more marketing (hell, they have TV commercials here). Chrome is fine, but outside of some sloppy addons in Firefox causing memory leakage, it certainly doesn't offer much extra as a "beta"/random forced release product that make me want to give up what works. At best for me, it would be on par, slightly faster, quirkier rendering, and (currently) less extensibility then what I get out of Firefox.

 

[isometry]

Recently I've begun to notice that firefox has been taking longer and longer to start up and eats up huge amounts of ram. The only thing keeping me away from Chrome is a distrust of google's privacy morals.

Anyways, I've been noticing FF's lack of innovation and improvement lately, but I still refuse to join up with Google's quest for world domination.

I'm averse to Google becoming the next Microsoft as well. Give Opera a try if you want a break from FF, it's the source of Chrome's "inspiration" anyway.

I support/use FF because it's free and open source, and I support/use Opera because they are the best in terms of features without plug-ins. I don't have a reason to support corporate giants like Google and MS.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

"really find it to be the fastest and most updated browser I've ever used,"

Definitely for flash games!
Love FF, but am using Chrome more and more..

And yes, I do remember the little steeringwheel icon browser called Netscape from grandpas eara!

 

[sinterklaas]

Firefox does everything I want to and fast.

 

[robert01]

Well, perhaps not exactly firmly. Chrome holds a slim lead with 25.69 percent of internet denizens using Google's slim browser, while Firefox is used by 25.23 percent - a difference of just .43 percent for those of you too lazy to pop open a calculator.

The difference is .46 actually, and i didn't use a calculator.

I work in a technical supporte related job and i cant believe how many people use IE6 and the technicians that after installing Windows XP don't upgrade the browser.

That site about eliminating IE6 mentions that they want everybody using IE9, too bad it doesn't work on XP.

They want people to move on from Windows XP. It's dated, and Windows 7 was/is a good enough OS to replace it.

OT: I use Firefox. It is my friend. I tried Google Chrome, didn't like it all the much, uninstalled it.

 

[Phlakes]

Huh, I didn't know Firefox was actually decreasing. Well, Chrome is amazing and has never failed me, so I'm not surprised that other people are turning to it.

 

[Xeldrak]

I don't care - I've been using Opera for...(need to look it up)...about eight years and I'm not planning to change browser

 

[VanityGirl]

<-Only person on the planet who doesn't like Chrome.

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

Regardless, I'll never really understand the IE hate.

Nor did i.
I had always assumed that every browser crashed that hard and that frequently.

Now i use Chrome, and i am very happy
OP: This is good news, good news indeed!

 

[Grayjack]

There sure is a lot of browser elitism going on in this topic. I never even knew that existed. Guess people will argue about anything.

 

[ace_of_something]

My workplace (as a deputy sheriff) forces us to use Firefox actually every entity in the county is required to use it as per policy, CPS, county seat, the courthouse everybody.
My wife's school district (she's teacher) has firefox installed on every single computer.
At home we use the google-chrome though. Lickety fast.

 

[Epona]

There is a certain add-on that Firefox has that I won't part with. It is frowned upon to talk about that add-on here though. I will stick with Firefox until I can get that add-on in another browser and it works as flawlessly as it does in Firefox.

BTW, what is it with newer programs disabling the menu by default? I noticed it a few years ago with Windows Live Mail but it has invaded other programs (like Firefox) since then. As resolution increases the menu takes up less space, not more. Why get rid of menus now instead of when we were all running Windows 95 at 640x480?

 

[esperandote]

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That site about eliminating IE6 mentions that they want everybody using IE9, too bad it doesn't work on XP.

They want people to move on from Windows XP. It's dated, and Windows 7 was/is a good enough OS to replace it.

OT: I use Firefox. It is my friend. I tried Google Chrome, didn't like it all the much, uninstalled it.

Windows 7 is great, but it is not for ~256 ram, ~1.2 ghz computers (specially if the processor is worn out).

 

[isometry]

wow you sound so insanely snobby right now. I forgot people could be so egotistic so thanks for reminding me about that.

But on to my main point, you have offered personal preference as your whole basis for calling everyone else who doesn't use it "crude", now i'd wager many of these "crude" individuals are far more computer literate than yourself (im not saying me or anyone even in this thread, im talking the word at large) and to make such outlandish statements makes anybody reading them immediately think less of you.

But hey your just going to qq in response to this regardless of the content in the post. So enjoy

It's true, I'm an elitist in that I think the elite (by definition, the best) are, well, the best.

Your words, "snob", "egotistic", are weapons that the weak and mediocre use to try and contain the excellence of the excellent.

What makes me different from some elitists you may have encountered is that I believe that anyone can become excellent, I take any student who wishes to learn, I don't judge them on intelligence because I believe that willpower and curiosity are more important. To become excellent one just has to follow a path towards a higher endeavor like philosophy, mathematics, physical science, music and art, athleticism, honor and courage, beauty, creativity; everyone has the power to better themselves, and the life of self-realization is the good life, so says Aristotle.

"And if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away..."

 

[nickpy]

I always loved IE8. It was great; I always found it to be the fastest (yes fastest) out of Firefox and itself, and it's interface was all laid out exactly how I liked it. It had auto-search-from-URL-bar (which I despise), but at least you can turn it off.

I was tempted with Chrome, but, the lack of control is something I do not like one bit. You can't turn off the new tab page. You can't turn off auto-search-from-ULR-bar. etc. (those two examples are the main ones which annoy me, but there are many others).

I only switched to Firefox after IE9 whose new Download Manager is hideously broken - It's OTHERWISE a great browser (that and now you cannot turn off the search-from-URL-bar thing, and I figured out how to turn it off in firefox, but that's not a simple tickbox like it was in IE8, oh no, you have to rummage through obscure about:config settings), and more than capable of going up against the other two (in my opinion), people are just biased against the brand name now.

 

[Greg Tito]

Well, perhaps not exactly firmly. Chrome holds a slim lead with 25.69 percent of internet denizens using Google's slim browser, while Firefox is used by 25.23 percent - a difference of just .43 percent for those of you too lazy to pop open a calculator.

Erm, .46 percent [insert dickish perhaps you should have used a calculator joke].

EDIT: I hope this comment is taken in the light hearted way it was intended and I am not warned/suspended/banned.

Whoops, that was just a typo. Stupid hands.

Greg

 

[NightHawk21]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but don't android phones run Chrome? If so there's your deciding factor.

 

[a ginger491]

Yay, I helped pioneer the second most popular web browser! I can't believe how internet explorer is on top. The worst of the bunch has the most users... how does that work?

 

[Rodrigo Girao]

How can it be? I'm baffled that anyone uses Chrome. Its interface must be the worst among all browsers I've ever used.

 

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

I switch between my browsers whenever any of them irritate me / break. I mean IE worked fine for me until webpages started not appearing properly. Then Firefox was good until it started breaking. Then Chrome was working well until Facebook just didn't function anymore. Now I'm back with Firefox and it's going okay.

I will take whoever's ship will accommodate me...