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Chrome Passes 25% Market Share, IE and Firefox Slip

Posted by timothy on from the none-of-them-are-perfect dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In April 2015, we saw the naming of Microsoft Edge, the release of Chrome 42, and the first full month of Firefox 37 availability. Now we're learning that Google's browser has finally passed the 25 percent market share mark. Hit the link for some probably unnecessarily fine-grained statistics on recent browser trends. Have your browser habits shifted recently? Which browsers do you use most often?

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  1. Re:Chrome - the web browser that's added as bloatw by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unlike all the others? The most infamous such case was that of Microsoft and Internet Explorer.

                          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U....
                         

  2. Re:Android by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would never use the native browser on Android. That's like just giving up to Google entirely on privacy. I almost always use Firefox and I NEVER log into any Google services on Firefox/Android.

    Just cuz my phone resides in the company town doesn't mean I have to be totally locked in.

  3. Firefox - the new UI is killing marketshare by QuietLagoon · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Firefox's market share has been dropping ever since the new UI was introduced.

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    One would think that the Mozilla developers would take their heads out of their collective arse and look at the reality --- the new UI is little more than a Chrome clone, and a poor one at that. If people wanted the new UI, they'd move to the better implementation of it, i.e., Chrome.

    Oh wait, they are moving to Chrome....

  4. Re:Chrome - the web browser that's added as bloatw by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, that many people still use IE?!

    Why wouldn't they? It's right there, on their computer, the moment they buy it.

    Forgive them, for they know not what else they can install.

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  5. Re:Chrome - the web browser that's added as bloatw by Dog-Cow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Forgive them for being pragmatic instead of dogmatic. Forgive them for using a perfectly good browser that's preinstalled instead of wading into some obscure nerd-war against Microsoft. In other words, forgive them for being normal people.

  6. Re:Chrome - the web browser that's added as bloatw by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's also often a corporate standard, especially for companies and their clients with older, Windows specific software tools. And many proxies are configured to lie about the web client they are proxying for, in order to provide access to upstream websites which demand IE. There are many examples, such as:

            http://unix.stackexchange.com/...

  7. Re:I would use any browser that offers the followi by tompaulco · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Adblock Edge, Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript.

    That's all I want, and to not have the interface shift around every version.

    And a menu bar on the top, please.

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