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Chrome Passes 25% Market Share, IE and Firefox Slip
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?
Chrome is added as bloatware to a lot of products which makes it hardly surprising that it gains an advantage in market percentage.
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Unlike all the others? The most infamous such case was that of Microsoft and Internet Explorer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U....
Why is it that when I look at wikipedia , they show all the various counters more or less in agreement, except netapplications which vastly overcounts IE and undercounts Chrome, android and safari? Why is it that of all the various counters netapplications is the one most often quoted, even though they appear to be using a bad methodology.
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That'd be FF with a slug of extensions like noscript, adblock, ghostery, refcontrol, betterprivacy, maybe some others.
It's your best bet right now. Not sure if it's still true, but not too long ago the adblock extensions for Chrome would still download the ads, just not display them, which is useless as it still lets the tracking companies see everywhere you go.
I used to test compatability between Chrome, Opera, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, as a desktop browser. But now we have one PC and two phones and a tablet, and Chrome is native on all the mobile devices. That's where Firefox is losing to Chrome. Personally I installed Firefox on my Android Tablet, but Chrome still lurks in the background.
Well, yes, it's like I.E. in that respect. Where I work it's now the mandatory browser.
Is that the mantle of praise now?
Google's Web Services aren't designed to 'service' the user.
Remember that Science Fiction Story: "To Serve Man"?
If you have failing sight, you could set your system DPI bigger.
If you're concerned about webmasters using the px unit, consider that CSS defines 1px not as a hardware pixel but as 1/2688 of the distance from the eye to the display. This means it'll respect DPI as much as anything else does.
I switched back to Firefox few months ago.
In Ubuntu, Chrome is a resource hog. I usually have several tabs opened at the same time. Just compared the RAM usage: 7GB in Chrome, 1.1 in Firefox.
Additionally, Firefox is a bit faster (in UI), and it just respects my look and feel (colors, borders, font sizes, etc).
And for address bar searches, Chrome privileges the google search instead of navigation history, which I really don't like (I usually visit the same sites, and even with several hits in a day for the same site starting with the same word, Chrome prefers, for few ones, to search when I type the word instead of display the known URL as first result).
I just changed few settings in Firefox (increased scroll speed, click in URL behaviour to select the entire address), and voilà.
Just annoying that every Google service keep suggesting to use Chrome until you dismiss this message.
It's the default browser in many Android devices, is that what you're talking about?
If so, then he's wrong; the figures referenced here are for desktop browser usage. There are a separate set of figures for mobile/tablet (Safari at 40%, Chrome at 30%).
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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....
Is it all post Eich or pre Eich and/or did Eich's departure hasten the decline?
Chrome is truly awful at opening multiple tabs at once on my mac. unbelievably slow loading times compared to Safari. And when a page is loading in one tab, other tabs don't continue to update swiftly. I find this really a weirds because chrome uses a separate process for each tab so one would think they would not step on each other. My guess, wild, is that tabs are contending for some resource like network or GPU and actually slowing each other down. In general I much prefer safari or firefox, but I use chrome because I also own a chromebook and I can't run safari on that. Basically, google is doing the same thing microsoft did to make IE dominant by not allowing other browsers on their platform.
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I've seen it included with CCleaner and Avast. It's a plague.
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>"Have your browser habits shifted recently?
No because
1) I don't want Google even further spying on me or my users.
2) Chrome is not open source, further allowing Google to do who-knows-what.
3) Chromium (which IS open source) apparently has build issues and isn't even in the normal Fedora repos.
4) Chrome is not community driven.
5) I hate the minimalistic UI with zero user control of Chrome.
>" Which browsers do you use most often? "
Only Firefox. It is multiplatform, open-source, community driven, fast, available in every repo, secure, and still has much better addon/customization support. This is not to say I don't have issues with Firefox- them trying to turn it into Chrome and pulling crap like not allowing us to have tabs-on-bottom, having the menus, hiding the URL prefixes, combining the buttons, etc is very irritating (yes, I know about Classic Theme Restorer). And the memory footprint of all browsers is crazy now. I also don't appreciate them throwing unnecessary crap into the browser like the web developer stuff, the "hello" junk, and other things.... all of which should be add-ons.
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Chromium (which IS open source) apparently has build issues and isn't even in the normal Fedora repos.
Fedora's fault. In Xubuntu, a Debian derivative, all I have to do is sudo apt-get install chromium-browser.
And the memory footprint of all browsers is crazy now.
Is this the fault of the browser or of the sites you visit? Back when sites weren't as image- and script-heavy, like Better MF Website, a graphical browser could actually fit on a 16 MB machine. Nowadays sites are covered with carousels full of high-DPI photos, plus developers think they still need jQuery and all its bloat just to get the site out the door faster.
I also don't appreciate them throwing unnecessary crap into the browser like the web developer stuff
Browser developers distribute the debugger with all copies of the browser to keep sites from intentionally detecting a debugger's presence and stopping working if one is found. If everyone has a debugger, the site operator can't block people who want to tinker, learn, and make a site more usable without blocking everyone.
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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Some pages only load on it, because startups often require features that are only available on it. The new whatsapp for web comes to mind, at first it was available only for chrome.
Computer manufacturers often bundle chrome preinstalled.
In my country Venezuela few people went to download firefox, but venezuelans love google search, so you see ads to upgrade from your old IE 8 to chrome.
Here are my website's stats (insurance company):
Chrome (55.31%)
Firefox (21.87%)
Internet Explorer (19.00%)
OS:
Windows (89.72%)
Android (4.80%)
Macintosh (2.57%)
iOS (1.54%)
Linux (0.54%)
Windows versions:
7 (60.97%)
XP (29.26%)
8.1 (6.15%)
8 (2.33%)
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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.
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/...
Do you even know why Microsoft is creating a new browser? I'll tell you: It's because IE has a BIG reputation for being prone to security breach, in addition to being very uncooperative with web standards to the point of very badly breaking them.
the browserchoice bullshit in europe expired at the end of last year... so all non-microsoft browsers, like firefox, lost that free exposure... so no os default like windows, no pay-for-installs distribution like chrome, means firefox falls. not surprising
So from a capitalist perspective, Firefox is the number one browser, because Firefox is the most frequently chosen browser for people who on purpose install a particular browser.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
CSS defines 1px not as a hardware pixel but as 1/2688 of the distance from the eye to the display
I just tested this on my system and it didn't work. I backed off from the display about 5 feet and the font did not change at all.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
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.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
If by old-school Firefox you mean, "eight years prior to its existence Netscape Navigator", then yes.
I really wanted to switch to Seamonkey; but: it can't do fullscreen video playback, it has no "inspect element" functionality, and its cookie/popup manager is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. It's also not fun writing a custom extraction tool to get the resource files out of their intentionally-corrupted omni.ja(r) file to drag the interface kicking and screaming out of 1995. Learning magic trick with userChrome.css only gets you so far with Seamonkey, but can't make the tab bar even remotely sensible.
And how about this new-age bullshit trend on sites like medium.com that think you want to look at a literal, full-screen image of some unrelated stock art picture before you get to a single word of the actual story; followed by repeated 1920x1080 stock art for every three paragraphs of text?
View -> Page Style -> No Style is a godsend on some of these sites.
I don't think it's right to call the default browser that comes with a device bloatware.
Apple didn't even have the courtesy to say they were discontinuing Safari on Windows, they just stopped releasing versions. So fuck them.
Mordac and his associates as Preventers of IT at my company insists and demands that only an older IE exists on our machines. so half the websites I visit lock the machine up. this is, of course, the usual silliness about keeping creaky old code, as well as the insistance that IE is the only safe choice with all the mayhem out there.
at home, I have given up on resize-happy Firefox and use Chrome exclusively. if Mozilla would fix that freakin' bug, I might reinstall it.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Would you want other users to be able to post as Dog-Cow? Because if you don't subscribe, you don't get HTTPS, and if you don't use HTTPS when posting, others can intercept and clone your session cookie.
Most PCs do not include range finding hardware. If they do include a webcam, it isn't stereoscopic. So you'll need to tell the window system explicitly how far away you plan to sit. Divide 2688 by your viewing distance in inches (1 m = 39.37 in), increase it somewhat if you have poor vision, and put that into your window system's DPI field.
Sigh....do you not remember your history AT ALL, not even a teeny tiny bit?
Alright boys and girls, time for a lesson from the greybeard society...You took IE NOT because of any bundling, because, just as was the case with many other MSFT early successes the other guy did something REALLY fucking stupid. MSFT was able to easily win the browser wars because Netscape (which for the record I bought and used) went and shot themselves square in the face by going "Ya know what? Lets just shitcan our browser that has made us all this money and do a top to bottom rewrite, fuck we don't need a 'plan B' because our shit don't stink and we are super geniuses!" which gave us Nutscrape 4, so called because it would have been less painful to scrape your nuts with a cheese grater than have to use that abortion for any length of time! It was so buggy if you saw 4 websites in a row without crashing the OS (yes not just the browser, it leaked so much memory it would BSOD the OS like it was nothing) it was a miracle, it was a fucking disaster!
So nobody had to "force IE" which just FYI IERadicator was free and would remove IE in less than 30 seconds, which was one of the things they busted MSFT for, the "you can't remove IE" bullshit, you took it because your "choices" was a free and not nearly as buggy IE, a buggy as fuck NS4 for $$, or ad ridden Opera, again unless you ponied up $$ but Opera did things in such a bizarre way that many websites (and yes this was before "works best in IE" existed) just came out all wonked, it was not fun at all in those days....so we took IE, not because it was great, but because the alternatives were MUCH worse. Now that there is choice wadda ya know, we actually choose and no browser dominates anymore...yay!
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