Interestingly, I prefer Firefox for one reason...

Don't really use Pc browsers anymore. I mostly use opera mini when reading for its speed especially when not on wi-fi. For porn I use the native android browser because it can run full flash.

I have been using Nightly. Works great for me.

frozenhotchocolate: For porn I use the native android browser because it can run full flash.

Fair_Poopsmith: So... does that include on mobile operating systems? I think it's been more than a year since I used a web browser on a desktop/laptop OS with any degree of regularity.

Agreed, most of the time I use my Toshiba Thrive tablet (like I am now) and it comes prebundled with Chrome. Not a huge surprise, since it's Android and all.

On my laptop, I'm still a Firefox holdout just because I have all of my script and ad blocker installed and working gloriously, and am too lazy to turn it over to Chrome and have to find the same addons that work comparatively. I'm sure they have them, I'm just to lazy to do it for as often as I use it anymore.

I do have to reinstall windows very soon, though, so I'll probably make the switch then.

Too bad Chrome won't let me disable to annoying-ass, middle-click autoscroll feature. Damned annoying, worthless feature.

Awesome - now I can use my Chrome Laptop to migrate all my Google Wave friends to Google+.

thermo: I'm reading this in Firefox

+1

narkor: Awesome - now I can use my Chrome Laptop to migrate all my Google Wave friends to Google+.

GOOGLE!

Shadowknight: On my laptop, I'm still a Firefox holdout just because I have all of my script and ad blocker installed and working gloriously, and am too lazy to turn it over to Chrome and have to find the same addons that work comparatively. I'm sure they have them, I'm just to lazy to do it for as often as I use it anymore.

As a Chrome user, the equivalents aren't "quite" there yet. They work well enough, but they're not quite there. The NoScript equivalent requires a password to be set locally on each machine in some random config file, and isn't quite as granular(no "Let X.com scripts only run on X.com" setting, so the Facebook virus will get you). I also believe the Adblock equivalents have trouble blocking content instead of just not showing content (And there's like 3 different groups with their own "Adblock", so that's real fun).

/And IETab is your buddy. Site doesn't work? Pull it up in IETab and try it now.

I tried chrome, briefly. The lack of obvious favorites and controls annoyed me. I think I removed it in less than 10 or 15 minutes.

back to firefox.
/no script
//adblock plus

YouTube seems to work better with Chrome than Firefox (you can right click inside the suggestions at the end of a vid). Not surprising since they both come from Google.

There is a fair share of people who YouTube use could prompt them to switch to Chrome.

meyerkev: As a Chrome user, the equivalents aren't "quite" there yet. They work well enough, but they're not quite there. The NoScript equivalent requires a password to be set locally on each machine in some random config file, and isn't quite as granular(no "Let X.com scripts only run on X.com" setting, so the Facebook virus will get you). I also believe the Adblock equivalents have trouble blocking content instead of just not showing content (And there's like 3 different groups with their own "Adblock", so that's real fun).

Well, that's too bad. I am at the point now when I use someone else's computer I just get enraged by ads. I haven't seen them for almost five years or so on my personal computer, so it's almost jarring to go back.

I'm getting used to them again thanks to Chrome on the tablet, but even then Android has multiple ad blocking services available for free on the market (with a little tweaking necessary, admittedly) that cuts them back dramatically. I just find it annoying to be shilled too.

Now if I can just get Facebook friends to stop using their friends list as their personal spamming database for Visalus, Scentsy, and how many other pyramid scams, I'll be set. I've deleted two people in the last week for that shiat.

*Sits back and waits for all the "Chrome Sucks because its popular!" threads to start turning up*

Serious question: Does Chrome spy on you to provide Google (Don't Be Evil!) ad revenue leads? I know they changed their privacy policy recently.

I still use firefox, but thats just because of the work I put into it. All websites that I use for billing have my histories and are themselves filed properly and it functions well on my machine. Call me old fashioned.

somemoron: Serious question: Does Chrome spy on you to provide Google (Don't Be Evil!) ad revenue leads? I know they changed their privacy policy recently.

Chrome used to be (and as far as I know still is) pretty bad with the RLZ token and constant "phoning home"

The biggest wtf with Chrome is that any time you download a file, both the filename and provider are checked against Google's "white list" of known "good" files and providers. If it detects that the file and/or provider is not on the list, the URL will be sent to Google for automatic analysis. That is arguably one step closer to a censored net.

People seem to never remember that with Google you are not the consumer, you are the product. They mine as much data as possible about you and sell it to the highest bidder. Whether or not someone is ok with that is their own business, but people need to stop living under the illusion that they are "customers" with Google.

If you're looking for something that incorporates Chrome's rendering or features without all of Google's bullshiat, then Chromium does an ok job, but Iron seems to strip it out completely.

a9735z: the URL will be sent to Google for automatic analysis

I should add that in addition to transmitting the URL, Google issues a warning to the user about the file if it doesn't show up on Google's pre-check white list.

I switched to Chrome quite a while ago due to its speed compared to Firefox. However, I don't trust Google so much these days and Firefox is much faster, so I'm back with Firefox again.

Google already knows more about me than my mother, but I'm not tempted to try Chrome. Firefox treats me very well, and I've got everything so customized on this browser that there's simply no way I could duplicate it on anything else. If FF ever lets me down or Chrome does something that is so innovative that it cannot be ignored, I'd make the switch. But right now there's simply no reason to do so.

I'm ok with Google having my email, browsing history, photos, documents, phone location, and RSS feed but damn it they aren't getting my browser.

/still using firefox

I don't like Chrome. It's kind of overrated. I don't see what's so special about it

I switched over to Chrome because lately FireFox just got all kinds of buggy. =/

Although, funny thing; I can't farking log into Fark using Chrome. So I usually just switch back to firefox to post here...

bulok: don't like Chrome. It's kind of overrated. I don't see what's so special about it

It works all the time.

I switched to Chrome a year or so ago because it was lighter and faster than Firefox. These days, not so much. Chrome is becoming bloated while Firefox is slimming down, so I switched back.

And as others have mentioned, Adblock and other plugins seem to work much better in Firefox.

?

I'm a little confused here..

How do they measure this market share? Unique users? Page views? If 10 "normal" users view 10 web pages with IE then go outside and enjoy spring while 1 nerd has 10 tabs open and plows through 20 different page views on Chrome before running off for some more bagel bites...which browser was more popular over that time period?

American Decency Association: yeah, im not so sure about chrome... crashes when ive got loads of tabs open, usually 'cause of flash. cant quite pin it down

I had the same problem. A crash on one tab crashed them all and almost always because of Flash. Then there was the issue of some pages loading incredibly slow (redmondpie and gawker mostly). After about a year of Chrome I went back to Firefox. Now that they have a bookmark/history syncing feature (and they recently added extension syncing) it's the browser that works the best for me.

Chrome for the majority of my browsing, Opera for basically Facebook and nothing else, to prevent FB from going all 1984 on my ass and disclosing my real name and info to every website I visit.

Not that I couldn't do it the other way around, I guess, but I've had Opera longer so I'm more familiar with the settings that keep cookies and other tracking under control.

//I don't let any browser save passwords, either, so security's not a _huge_ deal either way. Used to use FF but got tired of tiny updates randomly rendering it (or, in some cases, the entire machine) inoperable. Last time I opened IE was like two years ago because I needed something off the MS website specifically and couldn't get the updater app to work.

frozenhotchocolate: Don't really use Pc browsers anymore. I mostly use opera mini when reading for its speed especially when not on wi-fi. For porn I use the native android browser because it can run full flash.

Try Dolphin Mini.

I was using FF at the time but a while back, some farker suggested to try chrome for a week, and you'd never go back.

They were right.

The only thing I miss is minimizing the browser window with a mouse gesture (the hack for this in Smooth Gestures is pretty brutal)


/got my googy

Sim Tree: Chrome gas been heavily schitzo on me the past few weeks. First, it created 64,000 0kb files in its home directory, then a week later it changed the file permissions on the profile file such that it was no longer the owner and couldn't access itself anymore.

A couple years back I was losing hard drive memory at about a couple GBs a minute. Once my hard drive's empty space was filled up (about 80 gigs), it would empty out and refresh and do it all over again. I ran WinDirStat and it turned out to be Chrome with a REALLY leaky history folder.

sno man: Didn't it do that a month or two ago?
and last year? and a month or two before that?

That was a misleading "win". ALL versions of Chrome beat any individual version of IE (6,7,8,9, etc), but this time it looks like all versions of Chrome might have beat all versions IE, at least for one day.

Vertdang: I tried chrome, briefly. The lack of obvious favorites and controls annoyed me. I think I removed it in less than 10 or 15 minutes.

It takes longer than 15 minutes to fairly evaluate a new piece of software.

If you had bothered sticking with it long enough to figure out where the favorites and controls were located, you might have liked it more.

Whatever. Your choice of browser doesn't affect me.

a9735z: People seem to never remember that with Google you are not the consumer, you are the product. They mine as much data as possible about you and sell it to the highest bidder. Whether or not someone is ok with that is their own business, but people need to stop living under the illusion that they are "customers" with Google.

Actually, I think a lot of people "remember" that, but they're cool with it because Google provides them with a ton of cool web apps and storage for no monetary charge and understand that Google has to draw revenue somehow to continue to provide all this free/cool stuff.

For all the teeth gnashing about who's going to "ruin" the internet, look no further than the "I want everything free with no strings attached" crowd who seem to be doing their damnedest to make every business model on the internet completely unsustainable. You're driving us headlong into a future of ubiquitous content paywalls.

/Just uploaded 5,000 songs to Google Play's cloud last week for no cost, and still have the ability to upload another 5,000 more.
//Pretty cool having access to my entire music library on demand from any location from my Galaxy S II

Okay good now can you stop trying to push it with every piece of freeware in the world now