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Chrome 146 43.45%
 
Firefox 118 35.12%
 
Internet Explorer 31 9.23%
 
Safari 13 3.87%
 
Opera 26 7.74%
 
Other 2 0.60%
 
Total:336
anamme on 05 December 2012

Chrome, Firefox just became too unresponsive and slow.



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disolitude on 05 December 2012
Jay520 said:

Title says it all.

From what I've seen in my life, it looks like Chrome seems to be the preferred Browser for most people. I think that's quite interesting considering it's relatively new.

Here's a website that tracks Browser statistics. It's data matches nicely to what I've seen in my life, with Chrome becoming bigger and bigger. I'm not sure how accurate the site is though. If someone has another source of Browser statistics, then please share it.

Anyway, what browser do you use the most? It should be interesting to hear the perspectives of people experienced with the internet.

- Chrome 4 Life

Err...that link you posted isn't accurate at all. I work in online advertising and IE is still by far the most used browser in Canada and I assume worldwide. Could be because people with chrome and firefox tend to enable ad blocker more often than IE folks but we see over 70% of traffic coming from IE.

Otherwise worldwide IE is at around 50% while chrome and Firefox are near 20% each.

http://www.zdnet.com/ie-gains-in-latest-browser-war-results-7000006778/

http://netmarketshare.com/

And to answer your question currently I use IE10 first, Chrome second, IE 9 3rd... Firefox, IE8 and rest if none are available. Working with computers, I don't have admin rights to install browsers I want sometimes and I have to work with what I'm given.



sethnintendo on 05 December 2012

Does IE offer an AD Block? I would say that is the most important feature of any browser. Sorry VGC with all your ads but you were the main reason why I went to AD Block.



disolitude on 05 December 2012
sethnintendo said:
Does IE offer an AD Block? I would say that is the most important feature of any browser. Sorry VGC with all your ads but you were the main reason why I went to AD Block.

Google is your friend my friend :)

https://www.google.ca/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=ie+ad+block&oq=ie+ad+block&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.1397.2949.0.3077.11.7.0.4.4.0.113.689.5j2.7.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.95tiyNGVxCY&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=61e8a0b089322397&bpcl=39468505&biw=1920&bih=985

It obviously does, however it's not as easy to enable on IE8 and prior as it is for Chrome and FF.



burninmylight on 05 December 2012
Jay520 said:
insomniac17 said:

When the screen is maximised, the Firefox button is on the same line as the tabs. It is much like Chrome, but it keeps the separate search/address bar. Firefox is much, much better than it was during the 3.x releases. 


Interesting....maybe I'll try it out to fiddle with the customization options. It looks a lot better than I remember. Just wish the search bar and address bar were joined as one. 

 

You can type anything into the search bar and it'll begin a Google search if it doesn't recognize anything in your history or bookmarks. But I'm sure there's plenty of add-ons to fully combine them into one if you want to actually free up the space.



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smbu2000 on 06 December 2012

On my desktop I always use Firefox. On my phone, iPad and MacBook Air I always use Safari.

I tried Chrome on my desktop, but soon after I deleted it. I still prefer FF.




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hatmoza on 06 December 2012

Chrome is very unstable with me for some reason. I used to use it all the time in my apartment. Coming to think of it, it became unstable the moment I moved!

Anyways, I switched back to fireox about two years ago.

I use IE for porn because nobody uses that shit :P



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chocoloco on 06 December 2012

Chrome followed by Firefox, followed by IE. Whatever is working the best at the time which varies greatly.



Corey on 06 December 2012

Good Chrome, it's easy to use, very nice looking and is fast.



mysticwolf on 06 December 2012

I used to use Internet Explorer exclusively, but when I got my new laptop in July, I downloaded Chrome just to see what it was like, and now Chrome the only one I use.



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