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Forums - Gaming - Update on browser marketshare-- Chrome and IE gain, but Chrome gains a bit more

Rêveur said:
I still use Firefox. Don't understand why everyone jumped ship and went to Chrome. Tried it once, didn't like it. Mostly because Adblock doesn't work as well and I probably saw my first video ad on Youtube when using Chrome.

I've been satisfied with Firefox ever since I changed to it from Explorer back in like, 2005 or 2006, and I have yet to find a real reason to go to Chrome.


Agreed. Plus firefox is the master of gifs. Everyone browsing nerd forums should really use it.



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I thought IE would be lower and Chrome would be much higher.
Anyways I use Chrome but it has quite a few problems these days so I may switch to something else.



    

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Chrome > all



I use both Chrome and IE fairly regularly. I find IE a bit faster, but I love the look of Chrome, and its ease of use with plug-ins.



Chrome is still my favorite. I have Firefox set up with Endnote web and filled with links and favorites for college material so I consider it my working browser, but chrome is my go to browser for every day browsing.



 

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What's actually most interesting in my opinion is how huge the browser marketshare numbers differ, depending on which market research company is being asked.

The article already mentions the numbers from Statcounter:
Chrome: 43.12% (vs. 17.76%)
IE: 24.53% (vs. 56.61%)
Firefox: 20.09% (vs. 18.29%)
Safari: 8.59% (vs. 5.42%)
Opera: 1.1% (vs. 1.49%)

As the article already points out, these differences are mainly due to different approaches to measuring market share numbers: Users vs. page views. So what we can read from the different numbers is that typical Internet Explorer users are only casually surfing the internet, while typical Chrome users seem to be heavily surfing the internet.



ArnoldRimmer said:
What's actually most interesting in my opinion is how huge the browser marketshare numbers differ, depending on which market research company is being asked.

The article already mentions the numbers from Statcounter:
Chrome: 43.12% (vs. 17.76%)
IE: 24.53% (vs. 56.61%)
Firefox: 20.09% (vs. 18.29%)
Safari: 8.59% (vs. 5.42%)
Opera: 1.1% (vs. 1.49%)

As the article already points out, these differences are mainly due to different approaches to measuring market share numbers: Users vs. page views. So what we can read from the different numbers is that typical Internet Explorer users are only casually surfing the internet, while typical Chrome users seem to be heavily surfing the internet.

Not really, even though I'd personally rather that be the case as, I dont like IE/Bing/ MSFT in general.  However, this is more due to the fact that Chrome pre-renders frequently visited webpages, where they are always kept in a state of not-fully-visited so that when somebody actually visits the webpage, it will pop up much more quickly.  

 



sad marketshare as ever for opera. by far the best usability and ui.



walsufnir said:
sad marketshare as ever for opera. by far the best usability and ui.


That's what I use, I usually prefer to have a less common browser bc you'll get fewer bugs that way.  Less interest to develop bugs if hardly anybody uses the browser



Opera killed itself... Opera 15+ uses the same Chrome engine and so the UI lost all the Opera 12 features.

That's a really bad decision...