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Chrome Now Accounts For 55% of All Web Browsing (hothardware.com)
Google's Chrome browser "now accounts for more than half of all desktop browser usage and has nearly double the market share of Edge and Internet Explorer combined," reports Hot Hardware:
Market research firm Net Applications has Chrome sitting pretty with a 54.99% share of the desktop browser market, up from 31.12% at this moment a year ago, while Internet Explorer and Edge combine for 28.39 percent and Firefox stuck at around 11%. Even more interesting is that when Windows 10 launched to the public at the end of July 2015, Chrome had a 27.82% share of the market while IE still dominated the landscape with a 54% share. Now the script has flipped.
Just six months ago, the same research firm reported Chrome with a 41.66%, share barely beating Microsoft's 41.35%.
Just six months ago, the same research firm reported Chrome with a 41.66%, share barely beating Microsoft's 41.35%.
Honestly, right? The only reason why goog made chrome was to suck up everybody's browser history. I use safari and Firefox. I don't install toolbars. And my default search engine is DuckDuckGo. Too bad goog, you lose this round!
What's a good Windows browser for people who don't want Google/Microsoft spying on them?
Obviously Firefox needs to be made to look even more like Chrome.
wser today.
They are so obviously and completely designed to maximize the number of search queries made by accident, or by luring users into this. I've gone to great lengths to remove ALL fucking "smart prediction" bullshit and "search fields" and all of that, but they keep resetting the settings, or invent new BS, or remove existing about:config preferences, etc. I don't wanna deal with all this fucking BS all the time.
Chrome... Firefox... Edge... they are all the same. And the only "alternatives" are like PaleMoon (still full of junk by default) and Tor Browser (also not clean defaults, and also crippled in too many ways to be useful).
Ugh. And now Windows itself is like this as well. I no longer enjoy using computers at all. The software is made in the opposite way of what it should be.
IE is a better browser. I can't believe I wrote that but Edge is crash and misses things like favorites. Has MS added it yet?
I always put X-UA-Compatible in Css to force edge to use IE so I do not have to work around bugs.
So my guess is those who think the blue E for internet out of habit upgraded to 10 they found a web which was broken and switched
http://saveie6.com/
Chome's dominance is not surprising. The number one way to lose users is to complacently enjoy the lead you have over your competitors and ignore user feedback. Microsoft and Mozilla are both experts are ignoring user feedback and both enjoyed large leads while they diverted resources. Chrome can also be defeated by a competitor that offers something better that they don't want to or refuse to provide. Frankly, I would like to see a fork of Chromium that focuses on privacy, ad blocking and script blocking (I don't like random scripts running on my machine). These are things Google wouldn't want to provide, so this could be how Chrome slips back to a 5% user share.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
I don't know about the rest of slashdot readers, but from my point of view, Chrome is a great browser for apathetic users who don't have very sophisticated expectations in terms of extensibility and privacy features. With Firefox you have a much richer selection of add-ons and other niceties like, for instance, the ability to synchronize your data to your own server, rather than being entirely dependent on someone's so-called "cloud". Whereas Mozilla remains committed to a decentralized web, Google has managed to progressively blur the lines between browser and web property.
I suppose Chrome is not as horrific as whatever Facebook might come up with if they ever decided to make a browser, but that's not saying much for Chrome. I'm a user of many Google products, but when it comes to browsers I'll be sticking with the content-neutral product that prioritizes my freedom and privacy - Firefox!
Quick check: am I the only person not okay with Chrome overtaking the browser market?
Though I am greatly appreciative of breaking up the homoogenous (and semi-proprietary) web that IE left us with, I'm afraid we've replaced one devil with an even greater devil. Now the most widely used browser is developed by a company whose very existence is dependent on user profiling and advertising sales.
Google borders on being anti-user these days. The web they create is technically advanced, but it's also one that's been optimized to deliver ads, to strip control from users in the name of simplicity and to support Google's revenue stream. It gives Google an incredible amount of power - more than anyone else ever before - as they have laid the groundwork to see exactly what their customers are doing on the Web. That's a power I fear they're not capable of wielding wisely anymore.
At least MS just wanted to sell you a copy of Windows every few years; Google wants to sell you each and every day to the highest bidder.
What should you do if you love **Chromium**, but hate the spyware Google created around it in Chrome ?
Look for a well supported Chromium-based browser: I tried **Iridium Browser** (https://iridiumbrowser.de).
They claim adherence to German data protection standards, as well as having an reproducible and audible build process.
There might be other Chromium-based browsers, too, but with that one I'm quite happy for some months now....
I think Google made Chrome was to help drive the internet the way they wanted it to go (you can take that however you want). Google is a company that depends entirely on internet technology to supply their services. I'd guess they weren't comfortable leaving that client-side connectivity to their services in the hands of other companies, some of them competitors. So, I believe that by creating their own browser, they were attempting to control their own destiny rather than leaving it to middlemen.
We see today Google using Chrome to experiment with new web technologies to improve connection speed via new standards extensions, advanced security issues, research projects, ensure standards compliance, and many other things. To me, I see it as a same way a company that makes products with Linux installed on it would probably make contributions to the Linux kernel. Not altruistic, certainly, but also not nefarious.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Chrome:
* Closed Source: Check!
* Closed Development: Check!
* Google Spyware: Check!
* Most Restricted UI: Check!
Edge/IE are even worse because they only run on MS-Windows. No thanks, I will continue to use Firefox. Open source, open development, most addons. That doesn't mean Firefox doesn't have its issues... the biggest of which is TRYING TO TURN INTO CHROME!
I wonder how many browsers pretend to be Chrome for one reason or another? My Firefox browser identifies as Chrome to get it to work properly with Netflix. My Qupzilla browser IDs as Chrome to avoid compatibility issues. Just about every browser I use or set up for people ID themselves as Chrome because otherwise people see an endless stream of "We recommend you update your browser" nag messages.
Maybe, but for me the main problem with Microsoft is that Edge is a decent render engine, but more a demo than a complete browser. They released it too early, before it was ready. Edge is slowly becoming a competitive browser, but in the mean time people are changing to Chrome.
I would love to make firefox the default browser in my company. However mozilla has zero interest in that. While chrome provides MSI's and group policy templates to tie the whole thing together, enforce custom settings, etc.
Firefox how to deploy faq: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Deplo... (note the two most important links are broken and defunct)
google how to deploy faq: https://support.google.com/chr... (and many other webpages, but you dont even need instructions because its teh same as every other well designed software package from a major corporation)
Its been like this for literally years. Mozilla simply does not care about centralized policy management or deployment.
Firefox is the best web browser by far and much more stable, and less ram hungry than chrome, so its sad for me. Until i can push out adblock and firefox with a customized home page in 30 minutes to 200 workstations its not going to be standard on my network.
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I strictly reserve it for things that don't work in Firefox. BTW, if anyone knows how you can directly open a link in Chrome from Firefox I'd be very interested to hear it. By directly I mean not copy-pasting the url.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
...and search engines to be search engines, and both to know that neither is the other, and when I'm typing something on the screen I expect it to remain on that part of the screen and not jump somewhere else.
And I'd really like to be able to right-click on a link and have an "Open with..." option that offers my choice of all the browsers I have installed, and I'd like to be able to highlight and right click and be offered my choice of search engines.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Given how common mobile internet access is nowadays, it seems funny to place such an artificial restriction on this discussion. Does expanding it to include mobile access ruin the narrative somehow? It doesn't seem like it should...
#DeleteChrome
I think Google made Chrome was to help drive the internet the way they wanted it to go (you can take that however you want).
Amusingly, before Chrome browser existed, Google funded Mozilla pretty heavily. So their motives haven't changed - just their execution. Chrome was essentially using webkit earlier, then forked off it's own engine (blink).
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Even more interesting is that when Windows 10 launched to the public at the end of July 2015, Chrome had a 27.82% share of the market while IE still dominated the landscape with a 54% share. Now the script has flipped.
That's not interesting.
People hate Edge's interface, much like they hate any other Metro-esque vague UX Microsoft has shat out lately.
When people installed Windows 10 (I say that like they had a choice, haha), they suddenly found the familiar blue "e" on the taskbar did not open their familiar Internet Explorer. Rather then use Edge they went looking for a replacement. Chrome has the world's most popular search engine marketing it every chance it gets, so it's what people will end up with.
Google and Alphabet are gigantic shareholder corporations whose main goal is to increase profit, share value, market penetration, and so forth.
Yes, and you also just described nearly every for-profit corporation in the world.
Google makes much money by selling end-user data to advertisers.
Actually, you don't even have that correct. Google sells advertising services, but not people's personal data. And you completely missed my point anyhow.
Google created Chrome and gives it away because it helps users get to their services, which in turm drives eyeballs to their real business of selling online advertising. In other words, it's known as a business driver. It has jack-all to do with "advancement of free and open technologies", which I never uttered in my post, but which you mysteriously read into it somehow.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
See that second sentence of my post? That's me agreeing with you. My bad for assuming everyone here understood what Google's services actually are and how they operate. I'll make sure to state it very clearly in each Google-related post so you don't assume I'm a bloody ignoramus.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Enter a new monoculture. Will Google behave less evilly that Microsoft did in its time?
All Hail Google...
LOL autocorrect sorry
Ah Hell Google!
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
What digital restrictions management is there in Chrome other than HTML5 EME (which can be turned off) and the DRM in Flash Player (which can also be turned off)?
Browsers can be frustrating. In my experience, _all_ of them have _some_ issues. Currently I use Firefox for "light" browsing and Chrome for media browsing, because I feel that both lack in some areas.
Firefox:
+ Ideologically I'd like to use Firefox only instead of MS browsers and Chrome.
+ Separate search bar instead of an omnibar.
+ Tab opening and closing behaviour (always closing to the next-to-the-right tab is nice).
+ Most accurate URL suggestions based on bookmarks and history.
+ browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground is probably the single-most important reason I use Firefox despite the minus below. I use external RSS and IRC clients, from which I tend to open several links in one go. With MS browsers and Chrome, the freshly opened page comes to the top, and I have to tab back 6 times to open 6 links. With Firefox I can open all of the links in the background without ever being interefered with by the browser window grabbing attention. It's amazing.
- 32 or 64 bit, e10s enabled or not, bogs down a bit with even just 3 or 4 tabs open, and becomes completely crippled when more than one tab with an HTML5 or a Flash stream is open at the same time. I suspect this isn't what most Firefox users experience, but that's irrelevant since it's happening to_me_.
- Used to have very frequent memory leaks, now has occasional memory leaks.
Chrome:
+ Much faster than Firefox on this computer, and stays that way with many tabs open.
+ Doesn't seem to leak memory, certainly not in the way that Firefox does.
- Omnibar.
- URL suggestions.
- No background tabs from external applications.
- Evil.
MS browsers:
+ Pluses? What pluses?
- All of the things.
It grates me every day, that Firefox would be THE ONE for me, if only it would perform a bit better. It's perhaps even a bit ironic, because Palemoon, which is based on an older version of Firefox, is blisteringly fast but has some compatibility issues. If I could have current Firefox with the performance of Palemoon, I would be over the moon, and I'm not even an astronaut.
I use Firefox on my Android smartphone because it supports Ublock/Adblock.
If Firefox would change their application icon to match Chrome's and would label it "Google Chrome", they'd see a rapid rise in market share.
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People would wonder why Chrome slowed down so much.
Cheap storage VM.