Chrome is now 30% of the web browser market share, set to surpass IE in early Q2
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[td][QUOTE]Chrome climbed to 30.86 percent, according to StatCounter, while Microsoft's IE fell to a new 14-year low of 33.98 percent. If the current trend holds up, we will be seeing Chrome surpass IE market share in late Q1 or early Q2 of this year. Firefox market share has been stable at about 25 percent over the past two weeks.
For the entire month, StatCounter will report a considerable drop of market share of IE to about 37.5 percent, down from 38.7 percent in December. Chrome will increase its share from 27.3 percent in December to about 28.4 percent in January. Firefox will drop, to a 43-month low of about 24.8 percent.
Chrome's gained in January largely due to greater popularity of the browser in North America, where Google was able to surpass Mozilla and now ranks second behind IE. 2012 is shaping up to become an inflection year for browser usage as Chrome is about to surpass IE market share in Africa to claim the #2 spot. Chrome is approaching IE market in Asia to become that region's most popular browser. In Oceania, Chrome is surpassing Firefox market share to become #2. Chrome has been dominating the browser market in South America since mid-2011.[/QUOTE][/td]
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[editline]31st January 2012[/editline]
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Chrome master race.
Gonna stick with Firefox for now.
Chrome is good. I liked their old logo better though (the shiny one)
The Only bad thing I could think that would come out of this is that browser viruses and exploits might become more common with Chrome with a larger user base.
Apart from that, Goodbye IE.
[QUOTE=The golden;34487392]Firefox is getting so fat, bloated, and slow. It's no surprise that competitors are overtaking it.
I had to stop using it on my Linux netbook (which isn't very powerful) because Firefox is so godammn slow.
And computer users all over the world are becoming more educated on such matters and are thus dumping IE for other browsers.[/QUOTE]
Lately Chrome has been using 50-100% more memory than Firefox ever has, and isn't as fast as I remember it being.
If Mozilla can pull off something amazing for the next FF release I'll be switching back
I love the autofill feature and Chrome sync allot.
Poor Opera gets no love. But I like using Chrome too.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;34487397]fuck chrome[/QUOTE]
Yeah chrome's the worst browser ever!1!!1!
[QUOTE=Atlascore;34487465]Chrome has one problem to fix and that's the occasional memory issues, Firefox has several and they aren't showing any signs of being fixed.[/QUOTE]
Mozilla has been working on FF's issues ever since one of the developers gave that presentation on "Why Firefox 4 was bad"
Chrome is pretty nice, but it's been getting a little slow for me lately for some reason. Kind of gets annoying.
And Chrome 18 (developer channel) has new UI for the settings page:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DOeUh.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Atlascore;34487465]Chrome has one problem to fix and that's the occasional memory issues, Firefox has several and they aren't showing any signs of being fixed.[/QUOTE]
Like naming all your libraries after Ghostbusters stuff.
And the only reason I switched from Firefox to Chrome was because of the fucking memory issues. It suddenly started slowing up on me with anything flash related.
Chrome users united against evil.
[QUOTE=The golden;34487392]Firefox is getting so fat, bloated, and slow. It's no surprise that competitors are overtaking it.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://4stor.com/images/FpZG.png[/img]
I have 10 tabs open and Adblock, how the fuck?
[QUOTE=The Baconator;34487507]And Chrome 18 (developer channel) has new UI for the settings page:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DOeUh.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I wonder if it will still think I call hoods bonnets
[QUOTE=Zeke129;34487553]I wonder if it will still think I call hoods bonnets[/QUOTE]
I thought this was part of the April Fools joke, and that it just bugged out for me.
[editline]31st January 2012[/editline]
Welp, I guess my chrome swapped to UK english on April fools then
Funny, my dad switched to Chrome recently after using IE since he first started using computers for work in the 90s
Only problem I've had with Chrome is the lack of some addons I loved on Firefox aren't on Chrome and the fact that Chrome has been running like a bitch as compared to Fox.
Hopefully another browser update will come out and fix it
My school recently installed Chrome on all the computers in the school. Firefox and IE are on all of them as well, but the general population still uses IE over Chrome and Firefox...
fuck now chrome is too mainstream
time for opera
The only thing Chrome has over Firefox is an incremental GC (Chrome is slower at page rendering, uses more memory, etc.). And I'm not a fan of how WebKit implements random features without outside consultation (like IE did), they implemented an insecure version of WebSockets, they still support WebSQL, etc.
I've used Firefox since 2004, but 3 weeks ago I was getting fed up with all of the crashing so I gave Chrome a shot.
Never going back.
[QUOTE=Sonicdude;34487732]I've used Firefox since 2004, but 3 weeks ago I was getting fed up with all of the crashing so I gave Chrome a shot.
Never going back.[/QUOTE]
You can also try out the beta or dev channels, those are updated more often, and you get to try out new features before they are official.
Beta channel is best channel
I've not had a problem with Chrome until late, with youtube crashing the whole browser at times.
Dunno if it's Youtube or me.
[QUOTE=SatansSin;34487816]I've not had a problem with Chrome until late, with youtube crashing the whole browser at times.
Dunno if it's Youtube or me.[/QUOTE]YouTube and Chrome, it's fixed in the beta version
My dad was always complaining about how slow his computer was and how even checking his email was getting hard because it took so long to load. So I installed Chrome on his laptop (which is a Dell from like 04)
No joke, it went from barely loading webpages at all to loading them in 5 seconds. He was prepared to buy a new PC too, and his only problem was IE.
[QUOTE=TehWhale;34487828]YouTube and Chrome, it's fixed in the beta version[/QUOTE]Oh that's good then, I've been getting the same problem.
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