Chrome Now Most Popular Browser

[Itse]

http://www.globalnerdy.com/2012/05/2...-used-browser/

Considering they were 20 percentage points behind just a year ago, that was fast. Most of it off IE, but eating away at Firefox too.

Maybe I'll even give it a real try. Didn't give me a reason to switch over the first time.

[Azure]

Switched over to Chrome from Firefox about a year ago and never looked back. Fast, stable....does everything I want.

[SoulOfTheFlame]

Chrome is the best by far.. funny I almost take it for granted as being part of my OS... I never really think of it as "google" chrome.

[Notorious Honey Badger]

its interesting that chrome has won the hearts of PC neophytes. at work one of the managers here is a total PC dunder head but she loves her chrome. thats a fairly common theme im finding.

[Hack&Lube]

I still can't live without Opera's built in convenience features. I can cobble together similar things through a bunch of 3rd party addons in Chrome and Firefox but it's clumsy and they are all in separate addon menus and made by different users and don't look or work the same together.

Opera has always been the innovator (they invented tabbed browsing and practically everything else) and Chrome and Firefox have only copied. No idea why Opera's marketshare has never been very good. It is also as fast or faster in most speed tests and compatibility problems are mostly a thing of the past and have only been an issue again because of marketshare issues.

That said, I run IE, Opera, and Chrome simultaneously as it's of great benefit to have multiple browsers that are each good at different things to organize your workflow. The only one I won't use is Firefox because I think it's ugly.

[Notorious Honey Badger]

Some context from the story is that in the worlds leading economies IE is still embarrassingly in 1st place. Seems like South America is proving to be where Chrome is getting it's lead.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...nfU_story.html

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

No idea why Opera's marketshare has never been very good.

Probably because they used to charge for it, even after other browsers became free.

[calumniate]

Dumb moment for me - have been using chrome for a while but wondered where the quick search box went to (the little google text box on the top right). For the longest time I would click 'home' to get to google.ca and then search. Little did I know the address bar works just fine for that

[Hemi-Cuda]

i've tried to give Chrome a shot on several occasions, but it's just too simplified for my taste. for example i really like having a traditional menu bar at the top, address bar below that, and the tabs under that. Firefox lets me do that (or arrange things however i want), Chrome does not. Google seems very strict in their UI design, and it's either their way or the highway (as evidenced by this article). which is ironic, considering that Android is all about user customization compared to Apple's strict UI design

so until Chrome lets me make the browser look like how i want it to look, i'll stick with Firefox

[Yamer]

I have primarily used Chrome for the better part of a year. However, lately I have been having random problems with certain pages that don't seem to happen when I access them through Firefox.

I haven't used IE in years.

[OilKiller]

Tried Chrome several times. Just don't like it. FF is still the best fit for me. I like the way it works, the add-ons, etc. It's just the best browser IMO.

[Lt.Spears]

I love FF, dont like the Chrome interface at all.

[Buff]

I have problems with Chrome too. It freezes up on me quite a bit and I have to restart Chrome to get it back to operate as I would expect. I keep wanting to try it, but I keep going back to FireFox.

[The Yen Man]

I've been using Chrome since it first came out and never looked back. I like the clean, uncluttered interface, and it runs the fastest out of the three (IE, FF, and Chrome) for me.

[Bobblehead]

I started on Netscape Navigator and only switched to IE when Netscape became a POS. I switched to Firefox when it was still called Firebird. When Chrome first came out I didn't like it and too many of the plug-ins I used didn't have a Chrome equivalent. When those finally existed I switched to Chrome and haven't looked back, although there is the odd page the has issues and I will need to flip to FF, Command and Conquer Tiberium Alliances being the one I can think of right now.

[HPLovecraft]

The only thing that truly matters to me when it comes to browsers: speed. And Chrome has every other browser beat when it comes to that. Soundly.

The crisp, clean interface with minimal clutter (just like the Google website) is also really good.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

Probably because they used to charge for it, even after other browsers became free.

It hasn't been a paid browser since before Chrome came out!

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

The only thing that truly matters to me when it comes to browsers: speed. And Chrome has every other browser beat when it comes to that. Soundly.

The crisp, clean interface with minimal clutter (just like the Google website) is also really good.

Opera is neck in neck and even faster than Chrome in most speed tests. Opera's interface is more customizable than Firefox or Chrome or IE.

[Rathji]

I agree with the speed thing on Opera. When Chrome came out, I tried it but it handled PDFs terribly and with school that just killed it for me. I then tried Opera and used it for a year or so but I couldn't deal with the instability issues even though it was very fast. Went back to Firefox briefly

Finally Chrome fixed the issues with the PDFs and had enough extensions to replace was I was using in Firefox, I switched and haven't looked back. Recent indicators that Chrome suffers from less web exploits due to its sandbox nature has reinforced that choice for me.

I am even making it a mission of mine to convince our head developer to tweak our internal apps so I can use Chrome for the whole company. Who knows how that will work though, he is pretty busy.

[Hack&Lube]

Opera has the most instability because fewer apps test for it unfortunately because of marketshare. I will usually use IE as the failsafe for business or school apps or those with plugins like PDF or any enterprise web apps.

Opera I use for my own workflow optimization and personal usage as it's such a pleasure with everything that the others can't compete with unless I manually find and install a bunch of half-decent addins and addons.