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

ArnoldRimmer on 05 August 2013
dallas said:
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.  

Interesting, I didn't know that Chrome does this.

This doesn't explain the even bigger difference in IE's market share numbers though.



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dallas on 05 August 2013
ArnoldRimmer said:
dallas said:
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.  

Interesting, I didn't know that Chrome does this.

This doesn't explain the even bigger difference in IE's market share numbers though.


Sure it does.  One method includes the prerendered results , which would favor Chrome, the other does not and therefore favors IE.  I personally dont beleive that it would be fair to include the prerendered results in a measurement, but either way it remains clear that the trend is that of Chrome becoming more popular.



pokoko on 05 August 2013

Still very happy with Opera as my main and Chrome as my secondary. Tried to shift to Chome once but Opera is the god of ease-of-use. I have 73 icons on my speed dial at the moment and hardly ever use bookmarks. Chrome just does not measure up in terms of customizing it to fit my tastes.

I just wish there were less sites that only cater to the Big 3. Yahoo stupidly keeps telling me to "upgrade" even though everything works fine.



walsufnir on 05 August 2013
ethomaz said:
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...


That's why I will stay at 12 until it doesn't work anymore. 15 is horrible...



sniper989 on 05 August 2013

IE is the worst explorer ever, cant believe so many people use it



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maximrace on 05 August 2013

The recent version of IE (10-11) are superfast. I prefer it over chrome on my touchscreen laptop



superchunk on 05 August 2013

Love Chrome.

The seamless integration with Google services and saved personalization across all platforms is a god-send and better than everyone else IMO.

I have to use IE/FF at work and have grown to dislike FF almost as much as IE now.



NintendoPie on 05 August 2013

I can't believe over 55% of people still use Internet Explorer. Why do people enjoy torturing themselves? Stop it.

I personally use Safari, but that's because I have a MacBook Pro. If I didn't, I would definitely be using Chrome.



1337 Gamer on 05 August 2013
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.


This is my situation exactly. Got nothing against chrome but dont have any reason to change from firefox



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pr3st00 on 05 August 2013

I'm still using Firefox and never had any problem with. Performance is improving over time and at least for me it's rock solid. Most people complaining about freezes or stability issues are either using old versions or having thousand of plugins.

Anyway, it doesn't matter to me which one will finally take over the market, as long as IE is not the leader anymore.