Chrome Edges Firefox for Second Place in Browser Battle | PCWorld
Google’s Chrome Web browser has leapfrogged Firefox to claim the number two slot in the browser battle, according to Web analytics firm StatCounter.
Chrome held 25.69 percent of the worldwide market in November 2011 compared with Firefox’s 25.23 percent. Internet Explorer remains the top browser globally with a 40.63 percent share of the market.
What this tells me is that 40% of global computer users are so tech-clueless they can’t install a better browser.
I do understand why Chrome might be overtaking FF, though. Each new iteration of FF seems buggier and more irritating than the last.
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Maybe I’m just the lucky one? FF just plain works for me. No crashes, no lockups, no muss, no fuss. Even most of the UI changes from version to version have been easy to get to.
Maybe it’s just that I don’t push it quite so far. I hear people complaining about how long it takes to open when they have sixty open tabs… It’s like nobody’s ever heard of the bookmark.
I use Firefox for web development because there are great free tools like Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar. I’m starting to use Chrome for more and more web surfing, due to speed and stability. Firefox’s universe of add-ons is wonderful, but some of them just seem to make it leak memory and crash, and it’s next to impossible to figure out which one was the culprit.
Maybe I’m just the lucky one? FF just plain works for me.
Nope, you’re not the only one. Haven’t had much trouble with it since the start, and that includes the current one, Firefox 8.
The only thing that bugs me is that sometimes an add-on won’t work with a newer version, and ends up being disabled it’s updated…
Me? I’m a Mac guy. I’m sticking with Safari. The extensions are great and run smooth. I gave up on FF over the past year. Buggy as all get out. I won’t use Chrome, because I don’t trust Google as far as I can throw it. Besides, it doesn’t begin to match Safari on a Mac.
They still make IE Exploder? Who knew?
Dunno, I’ve been using windows/exploder since 2000(?) and must have just been lucky I guess.
What keeps me leary of chrome is that it is a google product which means that NOBODY (except google – first do nothing that’s not evil) knows what it’s is doing inside your machine…
Just installed Firefox 8.0.1 after ignoring all of Mozilla’s entreaties since about 3.6.9. It’s not that bad, and I have yet to crash it – and I lost only one add-on.
I have basically the same wariness toward Chrome; if it comes down to that, I’m moving to Safari, if only because Apple is slightly less likely to sell me down the river than Google is.
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