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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!
Obviously Firefox needs to be made to look even more like Chrome.
What's a good Windows browser for people who don't want Google/Microsoft spying on them?
I think the answer is in the question. I don't know that you can avoid spying from Microsoft being on Windows...
Edge is yet another brand we have to test UI's with. There are two Microsoft browsers now, and they both suck. (Insert my usual rant about fat-client-version-hell.)
Table-ized A.I.
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.
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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!
Vivaldi formed by the former founder of Opera web browser. Uses the Chrome's Blink rendering engine and supports Chrome Extensions. Vivaldi website
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.
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!
If you don't want Microsoft spying on you and you're a Windows user, you've already lost the game.
Furries make the internet go.
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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