Chrome overtakes Firefox in browser rankings

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By zebiddy on 2 Dec 2011

Chrome works

It's why I use it

By skarlock on 2 Dec 2011

stupid IE

I do not know why people are still using the slow IE. I like both Mozilla and Chrome but IE no. Chrome is the fastest but mozilla until now seems the most adaptable one.

By ABDALMONEM on 2 Dec 2011

RoboForm

I like both Firefox and Chrome. IE is dead to me. Firefox is still the main browser on all my PCs, mainly because of much better RoboForm integration.

By aa111 on 2 Dec 2011

@ABDALMONEM

Because in the real world, a lot of people in companies cannot choose to use another browser (because they often have very locked down PCs), and a lot of "normal" computer users wouldn't know how to install another one. (Readers of this website are unlikely to be typical of "normal" computer users.)

By halsteadk on 2 Dec 2011

I like Chrome's speed but it sure does like to hog memory, and shockwave consistently crashes.

By mikes87 on 2 Dec 2011

Opera is good

Faster than Chrome, more configurable, but it also hogs memory.

By qpw3141 on 2 Dec 2011

I hate Chrome

It ticks me off the way it piggy backs onto your system on the back of other software just because I missed ticking a box. Any software that has to do this gets binned asap,If can't stand on its own merit its not much good it it?

By JimAbz1 on 2 Dec 2011

@ABDALMONEM

What version of IE are you talking about? I have IE9, Chrome and Firefox on this PC and there's nothing to choose between them speed wise. I happen to use IE9 most of the time but when I do use Chrome or Firefox, I don't think wow this is fast - there's so little difference between the big browsers now its hardly worth bothering about.

By rjp2000 on 2 Dec 2011

@halsteadk

I think you are right because a lot of people I see they just rely on what is available on the PC and they do not care or they cannot choose.

By ABDALMONEM on 3 Dec 2011

@rjp2000

I think you are using strong PC. I used IE8 or 9 but my PC 1.73 dual core so I can feel the difference. More clear when using my netbook (just 1GHz normal) where the difference even very clear between chrome and firefox. So ====> I use firefox on the labtop and chrome on the netbook.

By ABDALMONEM on 3 Dec 2011

Browser usage not downloads explains how

This presumably includes all the chrome browsers on Android devices then. Because although I am not a great fan of either IE or Firefox I prefer them over Chrome. On another note entirely, reading this site in the latest build of IE9 on Vista and there is a big advert round the page telling me to install IE9 because my browser is out of date. The same advert also appears in FF8 on Linux Mint.

By mr_chips on 3 Dec 2011

Firefox is ummm

Firefox recently (since 4.0) has been an absolute shambles..Its sooo clunky and slow, but I then realised I could change a few settings like pipelining etc...and its amazing again.
The new IE is significantly better than before, its light and fast. I doubt Im ever gonna use Chrome but its firefox always.

By r1sh12 on 4 Dec 2011

It's all a matter of perception.

I have Chrome, FF, IE9 and Opera browsers on my dual core pc. Non appears faster than any other. It simply depends on your own add-ons. Even the benchmarks choose a different one as the fastest. The last time I read IE9/10 scored best but that could have changed.

By wired_retired on 4 Dec 2011