Chrome overtakes Firefox market share for the first time

Not surprising, in Sydney, Australia there are Chrome billboards at nearly every train station!
 
Still have FF here and love it with the occasional Chrome usage. I've had Opera installed for many years too but sadly could never get into it :( .
 
Say what??? Of course Chrome has a sidebar of bookmarks. Do you know what "extensions" are? Go to the Chrome Web Store and search for bookmarks.
 
I use IE9 on W7 and FF on Kubuntu Linux. Tried Chrome (Chromium), but didn't like it's minimilist interface and reputation as spyware.
 
red1776 said:
I am as well, Opera has been my browser for many years. I thought we established a while back that the more intelligent and discriminating use Opera. :D
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I've established that those suffering with a superiority complex all seem to use Opera. I offer the above captioned quote as evidence of this.
Per Hansson said:
I've been addicted to Opera the last 10 or so years, I just love it.
RAM is cheap nowdays, with 20>30 or so tabs open it only uses ca 500MB for me...
But there is always a solution :)
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I would mention that this is uncharacteristically cavalier. It doesn't rise to my extremely high standard of haughty arrogance, but it is, at the very least, a valiant attempt.

While 8GB RAM DIMMs are obviously an alternative for some, but not so much for others.

It doesn't seem enticing to acquiesce that Opera requires enough RAM to cause the prospective user to buy another computer with a 64 bit OS, to render the browser's best case utility.

ATM, FF 3.6 is plugging along nicely with 110 tabs open in 5 windows. Memory usage being about 661 MB.

Sadly, I don't choose to close 80+ tabs, for a more direct comparison.

SNGX1275 said:
Actually captaincranky, someone bumped the best browser thread in Software Apps and I found this gem: https://www.techspot.com/vb/post1070735-16.html
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I can tell almost the exact same story twice. This is a bad thing? The only problem would be, I forgot I told it the first time. Otherwise, I would have copied and pasted it, and saved myself a bunch of typing.

Carrying on with the good news / bad news / bad news, theme , I hijacked Red's Happy Birthday thread. It was the least I could do. The bad news is, I also hijacked it last year, and forgot that the thread was even there. Even more bad news, nobody thought to start a "Happy Birthday captaincranky" thread. While I don't deny it's understandable, it's nonetheless, disappointing. Isn't anybody the slightest bit concerned that a turn of events such as this might embitter me further?...
 
I'll agree with you that not everyone is in a situation to take advantage of cheap ddr3 ram. I'm using ddr2 on my desktop and to bump that to 8 gigs its far out of my budget. But I did bump my laptop to 8 for $30, only to find similar ram $10 cheaper a few days later. 8 gigs for $20 is something I don't think we've ever seen before (well of course not, but I mean that in a relative sense, like 2 gigs back in 2002 or something).
 
Umm...FF fans...when I installed FF on my older computer it took >45 seconds *just to load up* while Chrome was nearly instantaneous. Grant you this was several years ago.

Now, I know you all have awesome 3D accelerated computers just to surf web pages and your Grandma just 'needs to get a life' and buy that Alienware laptop, but perhaps you're not the whole browser market...

Speed is a fundamental feature, not a luxury...just take a look at IE's market share...
 
I have switched to Chrome now that the add-ons are becoming more useful. Unfortunately, Firefox has become too bloated for me and I have become increasingly fed up with the need to keep releasing versions that seem to just add to the amount of system resources required to run but no real improvement in function

I just want a browser built for stress free and safe browsing. Firefox has become the IE of old I fear.

Chris UK
 
Guest said:
I have switched to Chrome now that the add-ons are becoming more useful. Unfortunately, Firefox has become too bloated for me and I have become increasingly fed up with the need to keep releasing versions that seem to just add to the amount of system resources required to run but no real improvement in function

I just want a browser built for stress free and safe browsing. Firefox has become the IE of old I fear.

Chris UK
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You know Chris, Google has forced the accelerated version numbering paradigm on Mozilla, with their own BS renumbering of minute updates as full blown browser "versions".

In this day and age, many people are fairly cavalier about system resources, with 64 bit OSes, and memory at less than $10,00 bucks a gig. So, "Why The Face".
 
captaincranky said:
I would mention that this is uncharacteristically cavalier. It doesn't rise to my extremely high standard of haughty arrogance, but it is, at the very least, a valiant attempt.

While 8GB RAM DIMMs are obviously an alternative for some, but not so much for others.

It doesn't seem enticing to acquiesce that Opera requires enough RAM to cause the prospective user to buy another computer with a 64 bit OS, to render the browser's best case utility.

ATM, FF 3.6 is plugging along nicely with 110 tabs open in 5 windows. Memory usage being about 661 MB.

Sadly, I don't choose to close 80+ tabs, for a more direct comparison.
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captaincranky said:
In this day and age, many people are fairly cavalier about system resources, with 64 bit OSes, and memory at less than $10,00 bucks a gig. So, "Why The Face".
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Hmm, while I was being mildly sarcastic in my original post, I kind of feel a tremble in the force with these two quotes. ;)
And no, English is not my native language, so it took me a while to understand your post, hence the delay in replying :D

Oh, and happy birthday, but don't you think you'd have more chance of seeing a birthday thread if you filled out your birthday in your profile? :)
 
Happy B'day Captain, I'm sure your stomach can handle whatever you can throw at it today ;)

+1 to Per
 
Opera or Chrome for me, but either way, Internet Explorer doesn't deserve #1 placings there.

Also, W3 statistics say that Chrome and Firefox have a higher browser usage than internet Explorer - so are 'StatCounter' and 'Net Applications' just counting for the amount of people that use IE, or the amount they are used? Im guessing it is the prior, as W3 is the latter (which does tell you a lot about Internet Explorer users actually).
 
Oh ....BTW

Most people that use Firefox, use either "NoScript", or "AdBlock Plus".

With either of those extensions in play, you can avoid being followed around by Google. (To one extent or another).

With that said and done, I guess you're browser choice will, as a matter of convenience, not be acknowledged by Google.

C'mon now, Google can't go around telling advertisers that Chrome isn't as popular as FF, now can it?
 
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