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Chrome Passes Safari
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slayer9019
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chrome all the way....very usefull when dragging tabs between 2 monitors
I actually stayed with IE for the longest. I tried firefox, but have never been a big fan of Mozilla. It was a decent browser, though. I tried Chrome and the speed of it blew me away (mind you, on the sites I visit). I also love the tab placement. But what got me was bookmark sync. Having that on my work pc, my laptop, and home office pc has saved my butt numerous times.
I will reevaluate when the next wave comes out.
I will reevaluate when the next wave comes out.
Xmarks plugin works the same for FireFox, other browsers. And you can sync across firefox, chrome, IE, and Safari to keep all clients the same.
SlipperyPete
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I've been extremely happy with Safari, which I switched to after realizing Firefox has become a steaming pile of dog......poo.
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Wow, thanks a lot. I never conceived of having the option to have bookmarks (and tabs!) synced across all my PCs. I'm going to start using this now
.I always find this odd...
Why the hell would he plugin to death a browser, when the browser he's already using does all that stuff out of the box with 0 effort?
I wouldn't want to put forth all the effort to plugin a new browser when all it ends up doing is rivaling what I've already got.
No edit, but I did the same thing and I'm wondering why I did it.
Customized the hell out of FF to make it run and act like Chrome. And I'm asking myself why, when Chrome already did all that stuff but better?
Retronym
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My beef w/ Chrome is it seems to always lock up when trying to play animated gifs, for like 20 seconds.
(types this from Chrome).
(types this from Chrome).
That's IE for me. Safari is tolerable, but only just.
I will say that Safari's live search/find-as-you-type implementation is aces. No other browser has executed so well on that feature as well as Safari has (at the moment). The rest of it is kind of a mess.
radioactivez0r
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Didn't IE once have a 90+% share? It's interesting to hear the word "dominating" still used when it's dropped so far.
King Icewind
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I use safari all the time. Really the only thing I like from Apple, next to the iPod.
For whoever said Chromes tabs are easy to drag between two monitors...Safari's are very easy to drag between 3 monitors
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For whoever said Chromes tabs are easy to drag between two monitors...Safari's are very easy to drag between 3 monitors
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May I ask why?????
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Passing Safari isn't much of a Milestone Safari is horrible.
Safari is horrible.Are you certain it isn't simply waiting for the whole gif to load, rather than play it frame by frame as it comes in?
I am pretty sure 50% of the remaining Safari base are people who have had it install when they did their iTunes updates. Almost all my clients have it installed and I ask them if they use it. They have no idea what it Safari is or how it got there. Quick look at their iTunes update preferences and you can see Safari checked off.
maademperor
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agree
Didn't IE once have a 0% share?
NetApplications has the largest survey of browsers, besides Google, Bing or Yahoo. But search engines have an inherent slant since certain browsers set those as default home pages.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 59.75%
Firefox 24.32%
Chrome 7.04%
Safari 4.77%
Opera 2.43%
If nearly 2.5:1 over the nearest competitor isn't "dominating", what is?
WhiteFireDragon
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about half the people use IE? i though majority used firefox, or it seems like it. sole reason i use firefox is because of the adblock plugin, which i don't think IE has anything equivalent.
NKDietrich
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More interesting than these general surveys are site-specific surveys. Chrome is actually competitive with IE on sites where the users tend to be... more sophisticated? I'd love to see the [H] browser numbers. I know on the MMO fan site I work for Firefox is near 60%.
Justintoxicated
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I can never just use one browser. I prefer Chrome, but too many websites are built only around IE. And so far I have not found anything that works as well as firebug in firefox for debugging javascript.
It just seems like it in here. We're a very biased forum, so it's difficult to discern the average household in an enthusiast forum.
Personally I use Firefox and IE8. I like them both equally. On my work computer I use Firefox exclusively for my own reasons and IE8 exclusively for work. Different Favorites Bar contents, different bookmark contents, and different plug-ins.
Insula Gilliganis
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It is funny that it might all depend on who is keeping track of this and how they are doing it.
According to http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Chrome has been beating Safari since Chrome first appeared!! It also has Firefox beating all iterations of IE since early 2009.
But over here http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1 IE is just killing Firefox and everyone else!! And Chrome edging out Safari at the end of last year.
A third site http://e-janco.com/browser.htm has this..
A fourth site http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200807-201006 shows Chrome beating Safari since Sept 2009.
This page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers has a boatload of info and stats about the different sites that keep track of web browser usage over time.
In most of the news stories I have read, it seems that either statcounter.com or netmarketshare.com's numbers are being used.
According to http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Chrome has been beating Safari since Chrome first appeared!! It also has Firefox beating all iterations of IE since early 2009.
But over here http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1 IE is just killing Firefox and everyone else!! And Chrome edging out Safari at the end of last year.
A third site http://e-janco.com/browser.htm has this..
A fourth site http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200807-201006 shows Chrome beating Safari since Sept 2009.
This page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers has a boatload of info and stats about the different sites that keep track of web browser usage over time.
In most of the news stories I have read, it seems that either statcounter.com or netmarketshare.com's numbers are being used.
pgwalsh
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Perhaps on Windows, but it's quite good on OS X. 5.0 has made a significant difference.Passing Safari isn't much of a Milestone
I can't stand it when companies add something to a download of a product you want to use. Do people on windows want to use quicktime; probably not, safari; probably not, but that's the game. When I use windows I use FireFox or Opera, but today I would probably use Chrome.
Chrome is great browser. I've been using the Dev version for some time and really like it. I'm still waiting for some of the plugins to catch up to firefox, but it's getting better all the time.
Runningflame570
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What I find interesting here is not just the growth of Chrome, but where it is coming from. Firefox hasn't grown very much the last several months, but it hasn't really shrunk in share either.
Neither have any of the other major browsers EXCEPT for IE. One of the big places that we know IE still enjoys massive share is in business environments, maybe Chrome is starting to gain traction there in areas where Firefox has failed to?
Neither have any of the other major browsers EXCEPT for IE. One of the big places that we know IE still enjoys massive share is in business environments, maybe Chrome is starting to gain traction there in areas where Firefox has failed to?
What surprises me about IE is that it is just a little slower, and always has been a little slower, than Firefox. How is it seriously possible for a company worth billions of dollars to continually put out a browser that is slower than the competition? IE just feels "sticky"; tabs take longer to open and windows take longer to launch. It doesn't seem slower in actually loading web pages, though.
While Safari is pretty lame on windows I find it to be quite nice on OS X. The Developer bits are quite useful to me, I like the web archive save, and I think the find on page is the nicest of any browser.
On the PC I find myself using Chrome more and more. It might replace Firefox for me soon.
I don't think installed but never used is the usage metric they are using here.
On the PC I find myself using Chrome more and more. It might replace Firefox for me soon.
I don't think installed but never used is the usage metric they are using here.
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I recently used Safari for my mac, but the latest update has rendered it extremely slow... So I switched to camino... much better
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re: Chrome bookmark sync
They may have changed it, IDK - but last time I used the Google branded bookmark sync, they didn't have profiles you could pick from, it just synced them, nothing else. I love Xmarks in this regard because I have 3 profiles, 1 for home, 1 for work, and 1 for laptops (having the smaller viewable space). Depending on the computer, I have different favorites stored on each.
They may have changed it, IDK - but last time I used the Google branded bookmark sync, they didn't have profiles you could pick from, it just synced them, nothing else. I love Xmarks in this regard because I have 3 profiles, 1 for home, 1 for work, and 1 for laptops (having the smaller viewable space). Depending on the computer, I have different favorites stored on each.
I doubt it. Neither are as business oriented as IE is.
Because it works better than the competition.
It may cost a huge company hundreds of thousands to change software packages just so they could use a "free" browser.
It was the speed, extensions, look (minimalist, but nice), and tab placement which brought me over. Plus, I knew they'd eventually add in extensions for seamless stuff (bookmark sync, etc). I went from IE to Chrome as well. I can't stand using IE now.
I was on IE for the longest time - I could never get used to Firefox, something was just not there for me to like it.
It simply allows you to keep the same bookmarks and such across ALL browsers. Not just Chrome.
Suppose your work doesn't allow Chrome (yes, it can be blocked even though its a local install), or that you have a MAC at home, and PC at work, why not have the same bookmarks? Comes in handy.