Comments on: Browser Wars: Chrome will pass/has passed Firefox, Safari Up among Sb.com users https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/ Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:33:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510073 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:33:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510073 Stats for The X Blog browser and system use: http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/2011/12/07/x-blog-browser-wars/

]]> By: Fuzzy https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510072 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:30:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510072 I’m using Pale Moon, a de-bloated and optimized version of Firefox.
http://www.palemoon.org/

]]> By: Ryan https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510071 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:58:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510071 A big chunk of that shift is the prevalence of mobile devices that use Safari. A year ago I hit a dozen or so blogs daily with Firefox. Today between the iPad and iPhone I rarely even turn my pc on.

]]> By: steven https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510070 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:50:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510070 Personally I like Avant browser, especially the rendering mode switcher. it’s the browser I am on right now. I know that Avant browser’s overall usage is in the low single digits for some reason, but it has the most useful combination of features for me.

]]> By: Achrachno https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510069 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:37:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510069 Odd. I’ve used Firefox for for years and have never had any trouble with it at all. Works fine, does what I want to do. I also use Safari (incl. at this moment) and sometimes Opera. I’ve never noticed that any one of those is clearly better overall than the others. The advantages of one over another must be either be pretty subtle or involve features I don’t use.

]]> By: Marinaas https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510068 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:05:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510068 I tried using Opera on Ubuntu, but it just couldn’t handle certain pages for some reason. I’ll probably come back to it later, just as I ended up coming back to Chrome once it worked out the bugs.

]]> By: uqbar https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510067 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:24:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510067 Still using Firefox (on Gnu/Linux) here. I’ve dabbled with Chrome a bit, but just couldn’t warm up to it. Also, I’m using quite a few extensions with Firefox that I would just hate to do without. I work the browser pretty hard, so I have had Firefox crash on me once or twice, but then, I managed to crash Chrome also. All in all, I have found Firefox quite stable, with ever impriving performance.

In the final analysis, I’m sticking with Firefox because I know that the Mozilla people are motivated to do what is best for the user and the Internet community. While I generally like Google, when push comes to shove I think Google will do what is best for Google, even if it’s not good for me.

]]> By: Flora https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510066 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:26:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510066 I use Chrome almost all the time after a brief, failed flirtation with Firefox which I only keep becasue it is compatible with ONE proprietary editing program I have to use – still have IE to fall back because for some reason, the latest version of Chrome does not seem to be able to support organizing my bookmarks the way they are in IE – and importing them does not seem to work the way it should. I have tried in vain to find the instructions for making a copy of my IE Favorites to import to Chrome, without success. Otherwise I love it – I can have as many tabs open as I want, whilst in IE it gets wonky with only 3 or 4 tabs (NOT even windows) open at once. IE is better than it was before but Chrome is far superior, and it also warns/blocks me from unsafe sites – try that with IE. No contest!

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510065 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:46:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510065 I should ad that I hated chrome for similar reasons, then I liked it for similar reasons.

]]> By: Ketil Tveiten https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510064 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:20:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/12/06/browser-wars-chrome-will-passh/#comment-510064 I also use Opera. I must admit I haven’t tried Chrome for more than five minutes, so I’m not qualified to comment on it, but Opera is clearly a better browser than Firefox, Safari or IE. About the only thing about it that isn’t awesome is that the bigwigs (particularly those bigwigs who make browsers of their own) don’t bother supporting it. This is less trouble than you might think, really.

The “some reason” that causes Opera to be in the single digits is obviously that it doesn’t have a big backer to push it like the other browsers (MS, Apple, Google, entire open-source movement), and that’s a pity really.

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