Google's Chrome Browser Used More Than Firefox

[BrotherRool]

Statcounter isn't entirely accurate, it counts raw page clicks, and doesn't try to work out actual percentages.

In real life Firefox is still ahead just,
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/12/internet-explorer-stops-its-slide-as-chrome-nears-firefox.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content%29

Me? I was chroming but Firefox extensions just worked better

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

Im considering swapping from FF to Chrome anyway. Firefox has been very laggy and horribly unstable lately, It crashes an average 3 times a day, hell IE didn't even crash that much...AND ITS IE!

My only worry is getting all the plug-ins I use, like Youtube2MP3.

 

[Odd Water]

I used Internet Explorer... to download Firefox.

 

[YawningAngel]

Just a note for all the Opera lovers: Speed Dial is not as good as the new tab page. That is literally what sells me on Chrome. And Firefox is fine.

 

[D0WNT0WN]

Never used Chrome, used IE once and it was terribad. So im using Firefox with all the addons I need and im to stubborn to change.

Just the way I like it.

 

[babinro]

Is there any reason to go to Chrome if you're perfectly content with Firefox?

Using Firefox I'm perfectly happy with how things run. I don't experience anything that I would consider to be slowness or crashes. I'm able to bring up my favorites in tab form with ease.

I'm of the mind that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

[Mr. Google]

Clegane]Why is this news?

I mean it's hardly surprising.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-stupidest-internet-reactions-to-shocking-news-stories/

This is why its news jackass.

 

[Zenn3k]

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

Firefox has been turning to crap for 5 years.

Chrome is awesome, its easily the fastest browser I have.

 

[Xman490]

Google disturbs me by getting so popular with its browser and social networking site. I WILL NOT BE A SLAVE TO THE GOOGLE GIANT!

 

[Daveman]

I would use firefox but chrome is literally the only browser that doesn't crash when I try to load youtube... I have no idea why.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

As someone who has used Firefox, Opera and Chrome...

WOOT! *pops champagne* Good job, Chrome. I love that little browser. Minimal and fast. Makes me happy.

 

[Aprilgold]

Which is understandable, the general opinion through most of the Internet is that Chrome is faster and more stable than Firefox.

Fire Fox still has the glitch to where if you shut it off, it confuses for it being crashed, and then you have to restart your computer to use it again. Which is terrible.

I love Chrome more then Fire Fox, the Fox for me is only around because K12 doesn't want to allow Chrome to be used, and only for porn.

Is there any reason to go to Chrome if you're perfectly content with Firefox?

Using Firefox I'm perfectly happy with how things run. I don't experience anything that I would consider to be slowness or crashes. I'm able to bring up my favorites in tab form with ease.

I'm of the mind that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Its much smoother and much cleaner looking. It has everything the Fox has and just improves it. Main reason to get it is for that fact alone, also is much more crash repellent, just because you haven't, you haven't seen anything yet.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Maybe if firefox would get its god damned shit together i would use it again. Seriously i don't want to wait 5 minutes for my browser to load.

Never had that issue. Huh.

I had it a while ago but Mozilla patched it within a week. It was frustrating when it happened though.

Since then Firefox hasn't let me down so I continue to use it today.

 

[Grant Hobba]

We sure did.

 

[chadachada123]

The thing is that Firefox for most people works great...until they let it get filled with useless stuff and don't purge it occassionally.

One of the easiest things to do, really, is mark the essential add-ons that you love, uninstall Firefox, and then install it again. Get those add-ons back. Viola, instantly using half the memory that it used to.

Chrome doesn't have those problems, but it also isn't the same type of customizable that Firefox is. I can see why one would be preferred over the other (for either case) but I wouldn't claim either to be objectively better (or at least permanently so).

We can all agree that Safari and Internet Explorer blow ass chunks though.

 

[bluegate]

As long as people stop supporting IE, whether it is 6, 7, 8 or 9, I am happy.

As a little hobby, I like to tinker around with CSS/HTML a bit and god damn is IE a *****. It is just ridiculous to see browsers such as Safari, Chrome and Firefox rendering a page one way and IE saying: You know what, fuck the CSS standards, I make up my own shit!

Seriously, I wonder if the people at Microsoft make it a point to be as different as they can be... I am sick of having to do dirty CSS "hacks" and jumping through hoops to have a page render properly on their crappy browser.

If you ask me, all the websites out there should prompt people using IE with a message:
The browser you are using is deprecated, for your convenience and internet experience, please upgrade to a one of the following browsers.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

I do have to say, I'm getting fed up with Firefox lately. Telling it to restore a previous session, which I swear used to be pretty quick, now takes forever for just a few tabs and freezes up the browser the whole time rather than just letting me access whichever tab loads fastest. Freezes up whenever I download a file, too, since the Downloads window takes forever to load the list of previous downloads. The whole app is really not optimized at all in any way. Plus now YouTube's video player doesn't buffer anymore, making it impossible to watch anything that loads even slightly slower than it plays (which at my connection speed is everything).

But Chrome is just... ugh. Doesn't have an address bar that searches my history for matches, doesn't have hardly any add-ons, doesn't have a separate search bar that I can add custom sites to. Plus I suspect that business with YouTube is something they did on purpose to coax me into switching. Meteors to that, I say! I use Internet Explorer (9) to watch YouTube now, and it seems to do the job fine. I have noticed a tendency to crash when it encounters other Flash bugs, though, which is pretty hilarious. Oh, Explorer. Never change. (I don't mean that literally, of course. Please do stop sucking ASAP.)

As long as people stop supporting IE, whether it is 6, 7, 8 or 9, I am happy.

As a little hobby, I like to tinker around with CSS/HTML a bit and god damn is IE a *****. It is just ridiculous to see browsers such as Safari, Chrome and Firefox rendering a page one way and IE saying: You know what, fuck the CSS standards, I make up my own shit!

Seriously, I wonder if the people at Microsoft make it a point to be as different as they can be... I am sick of having to do dirty CSS "hacks" and jumping through hoops to have a page render properly on their crappy browser.

If you ask me, all the websites out there should prompt people using IE with a message:
The browser you are using is deprecated, for your convenience and internet experience, please upgrade to a one of the following browsers.

Hate to stomp all over your rant, but speaking as a professional Web developer, I have never noticed IE 8 or 9 not supporting standard markup or style code. If anything, the problems I encounter ? once I look them up ? are due to the other browsers supporting nonstandard code I used by mistake. IE is actually pretty strict about that. Are you sure that's not your problem?

 

[RicoADF]

And rightly so. Firefox has been a clunky mess since its second year, and continues to run purely on adopter fervor.

Just look at the trends in the graph. While most of chrome share is coming from ie, there is an obvious downward trend in FF as well-- with no sign of abatement.

Once you go chrome, you never go back.

My browsing habits typically involve 30 browser instances with 5-10 tabs each. Firefox and IE both fail miserably under this type of load, and the restore functions of chrome put both to shame in the event of a crash.

And Opera beats all 3 on both accounts. I have 20 tabs open no issue and fast. The rare time it does crash it recovers instantly back to where I was.

 

[Arafiro]

I find chrome far too slow and poorly designed to use.

I run Firefox 3.6 and it's considerably faster, even for loading google.com.

 

[bluegate]

Hate to stomp all over your rant, but speaking as a professional Web developer, I have never noticed IE 8 or 9 not supporting standard markup or style code. If anything, the problems I encounter ? once I look them up ? are due to the other browsers supporting nonstandard code I used by mistake. IE is actually pretty strict about that. Are you sure that's not your problem?

As I said, I tinker around with stuff as a hobby so I wouldn't have the experience that somebody has that does this kind of thing for a living. And thus, it could very well be my problem.

I haven't done anything in a long time but this is something that I remember from the last time I did something:
Why is it that IE takes the liberty to render the content of the ALT property in an IMG tag as a TITLE if you hover over the image? Neither Chrome, Firefox nor Safari do this.