Google's Chrome Browser Used More Than Firefox

[imperialreign]

I have to use IE at college against my will but its no where near as bad as people say, largely due to the fact that its VERY similar to chrome now.

Firefox has always been terrible and I've never understood its popularity.

Agreed, and agreed.

I still use IE by my own free will, have been for years . . . I've never been much impressed with FF, Opera, safari or Chrome. But, I've never understood the amount of crap thrown about regarding IE. I keep hearing this BS that it's the most unsecure browser and such, but considering 95% of the time I don't have any AV or Firewall running, I don't see where that nonsense came from. I know quite a few people using FF that can't seem to keep the viral outbreaks away . . . besides, it really doesn't help that the vast majority of all websites are still programmed and designed for IE . . .

. . . it all boils down to keeping your software up-to-date, and that's what most people tend to not do.

My only current issue with IE9 is the announcement pop-up at the bottom, but otherwise the browser runs great.

 

[MarkDavis94]

The only reason IE is top is because of people who don't know much about I.T and just use the one thats there, which is Internet Explorer.

Every single computer at my College uses Internet Explorer, except for the Electronics class room because the teacher is a cool guy and got rid of Internet Explorer.

 

[Robert Ewing]

Why is IE still top dog? Surely it's common knowledge throughout the entire solar system that it's garbage...

 

[JesterRaiin]

Sadly, Internet Explorer is still used by the most people with 40.63 percent, mostly due to old installs of Internet Explorer 6 on machines in nursing homes in Minnesota, I suspect. These people just don't want to upgrade, despite Microsoft asking them quite nicely to do so [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108242-Microsoft-Wants-to-Kill-Internet-Explorer-6-Too].

I'm one of such cases.

Among more modern machines, we have about 20 computers that still use Windows 98 and MSIE 6.0

The reason ?
- Very old computers. I mean VERY old. Celeron 800 Mhz class.
- Overall aversion to Linux based systems, EVEN if all that people do is running webbrowser and writing some simple texts.
- It's the school. It is funded by government and in our country we have more important things than education of future generations. So, no new equipment, no money for hardware, OS... For the Motherland !

Now if I could only figure out how those Google Chrome netbooks are supposed to work. It's an operating system inside of a browser ... We have to go deeper.

Watch it man. You're too close to enter zone ruled by Linux. Start with JolicloudOS or Peppermint OS. And leave all hope ye that enter...

 

[Doug]

Once you go chrome, you never go back.

I did. Mainly because Chrome killed my laptop (though to be fair, later on I realised -everything- killed my laptop), and ran badly on my PC. That said, I'm willing to give it another go.

Oh, and if people are wondering, the IE people are people like me who occasionally browse from work

 

[Ickorus]

Doesn't surprise me, Firefox used to be really good but with every update it seems to run progressively worse and they STILL haven't fixed that memory leak that has been plaguing it for several major updates now.

 

[AnarchistFish]

I switched to Google Chrome a few weeks ago :]

 

[-|-]

I don't really care which browser I use - I have all three of the main ones installed. Firefox is the one I use by choice as it's nicely set up how I like even though it's a bit flaky lately. I'd switch to chrome if you could open bookmarks in a new tab from a single left click - but this appears to be impossible for google to add as a feature.

 

[Dendio]

Chrome just feels so unsafe with its lacking noscript and all

 

[kiwi_poo]

I don't get it. to me chrome seems like a massive step backwards from firefox:

no bookmarks (even if there are, there's no visible way to get to them)
no seperate search bar
no customisablity besides the background, which yo see for mabey 15 seconds at a time, whereas firefox' persona's stay there the whole time
no easy way to access history
no homepage
and if you want chrome's stupid no-dashboard!-only-show-me-the-url-bar mode, all you have to do is press F11.

to me, speed does not make up for the points mentioned above. actually this is the exact reason why microsoft office has sucked since 2003: the try to make it simple, and end up cocking everything up. at least firefox remains sort of consistent

and also, I don't trust google

 

[CardinalPiggles]

I have always used Chrome since I got my new PC, except when Chrome breaks of course.

I was using Chrome until about a month or two ago when it started crashing constantly. Same thing happened to other people I know who were using it. So I've been back on Firefox for a while now. Have they fixed Chrome yet or is it still a crashing pile of mess that makes Interent Explorer look stable?

This happened to me a while back, I think it's different from person to person.

It will come back on it's own.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

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.

That must have been a long time ago. I don't think they've done that since 7.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Hipster internet people, giving a shit about what type of browser people are using!

I don't care. Nobody outside the companies that make browsers should care. This isn't a banner to get behind or a cause to support, its which bundle of source you use to interpret html. This strikes me as ridiculously stupid dick waving that people actually care. I think I'm going to go and continue to not give a damn so long as my browser can open the webpages I visit.

 

[FamoFunk]

...we did it boys.

We did it!

Actually LOL'd, thank you, Sir!


I'm a Chrome user ever since I moved from a PC to a laptop (It used to be FF) I like it a lot, I guess everyone else does too. It's neat, I like the apps and that I can pimp my pages out to a degree. It's also really fast.

Also, "OMG Google is taking over" and, "LULZ people still use IE"

 

[MattAn24]

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.

I went back to Firefox FROM Chrome. No fucking way I was using Chrome when its caching, cookies and security settings are complete and utter bollocks. You try deleting saved cookies, they all mysteriously come back (even with the setting "LET ME DELETE THEM" ticked). Firefox isn't stupid like that. Hell, the Firefox interface is pretty much like Chrome's now too, even though Chrome actually resembled Firefox more than IE when it first came out anyway.. :/

 

[The White Hunter]

Now you see I am not a big fan of chrome, so much so that I have Firefox instead, just seems to work better for me. Don't see how any of what I'm looking at right now is aping chrome mind it's pretty much what firefox always was with a facelift.

As a backup if firefox for some reason wont work I use Safari if anyones wondering, because it's still better than chrome in my eyes, and I detest IE.

 

[Charli]

No sorry google I don't like you enough yet, I've tamed the fox well enough to get it to function exactly how I want it to and I'm not going through that bullshit again with you.

 

[brainslurper]

Truly a testament to Google's power to make people think a product is something new and innovative just by changing the looks/logo a bit.

The average person doesn't have enough experience to know that safari and opera had features that google is still copying years before chrome even existed... If people are happy with chrome, then fine.

 

[Romblen]

Spoiler: I usually hate using memes, but I think this is appropriate.

I switched to Chrome a while back, I don't know how long ago. I was getting fed up with IE, but I found Firefox to be even worse. A friend suggested Chrome, and I never went back. I even convince my father, who runs a small business, to switch all of his computers to Chrome instead of IE.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

/reign of Firefox.

Haha, right. Actually...that's fair. I use both now, but still kind of prefer Firefox. Though, I do systematically remove IE from my computers as I get them, and install Firefox from a USB drive. Mind you, I'm not of the persuasion to have 100 tabs open anyway, and routinely keep my counts down, so I get about the same amount of use from them, for about the same speeds.