Chrome Prepares to Pass Firefox as Second Most Popular Browser
via Chrome Set to Eclipse Firefox as World’s No. 2 Browser.
Last week, Google claimed Chrome was the most popular web browser in the world. By some measures that’s true, but one leading research site still places it in the No. 3 spot, behind Internet Explorer and Firefox.
That’s about to change.
Net Applications pegs Chrome‘s market share at 19.08%, less than a percentage point behind Mozilla Firefox, which has 20.06%. However, Chrome’s chunk of the market has increased almost 5% over the past year, while Firefox’s has decreased almost 3%. Both, however, are far behind IE, which has a commanding 54.02% of the market.
If trends continue, Google’s browser will soon claim the second spot in the browser wars. So why did Google say it was the world’s top browser?
I’m going to say no to letting Google get even deeper into my computer.
I stopped using Firefox back at version 4 or so. It sucks. It takes way too long to load, and it’s slow as a tortoise. Like rbj, I don’t like Google – so I tried IE9 when it was released. It’s an awesome browser. It’s lightning fast, and it does everything I want it to do without crashing. And I don’t have time for a cup of coffee while it’s starting because it starts immediately, like it was running in the background even though it wasn’t.
I was never a huge Microsoft fan, but they really got it right with IE9 and Win 7.
Honorable mention goes to Opera. It’s a good browser, as well…I just never took the time to get used to it. With IE9 on the market, I don’t need to.
The reason IE starts fast is that it is part of Windows. IE has gotten much better – MS managed to incorporate the features people liked in other browsers quite well. I’d also recommend giving Chrome and Firefox a shot – Chrome is really fast, and Firefox only takes a while to load if it is applying an update. My computer is a few years old and I seriously never see a slowdown on Chrome or Firefox.
I won’t use Chrome because it’s Google. But I am extremely familiar with Firefox. That’s why I stopped using it.
“So why did Google say it was the world’s top browser?”
Because it’s an article of faith in much of the IT community that IE (or anything made by Microsoft) is second-rate.
There is a reason for that, mainly that open source beats MS like a rented mule.
Firefox has fallen far.
I use a Chromium based browser by SRWare called Iron. It’s basically Chrome with all the creepy Google crap stripped out.
I use Firefox and Chrome. I really don’t see a massive advantage of one over the other, aside from firefox being open source.
I am still using Firefox, version 13.0.1. I will not let Google into my system any more than necessary.