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Chrome fades as users return to IE, Firefox
- noelchurchill 18y agoIt's still too buggy. I'll use it more when it becomes more stable.
- puns 18y agoReturn to IE??
- petervidani 18y agoMy thought exactly. Who, of all the users on IE, has even heard of a different browser? And then of these users, they decide that IE is still better? Is this like some .001% that I can't find anywhere?
- kirse 18y agoThere was a ton of media coverage behind Google Chrome, a lot of non-techie people knew about it.
- enomar 18y agoNot interested. Do people really read computerworld.com, or is this just click-bait?
- tbeseda 18y agoNot to mention their analysis is skewed. Could they not have compared the browser shares circa a major FF release? FF3 usage was way up, then declined slowly.
- unalone 18y agoYeah. You can't compare a browser coming out the doors for the first time to a major, dominant browser. Of course your results will be skewed.
- redorb 18y agoI just recently went 100% FF again, after using chrome for 2 weeks or so. Chrome crashed and made pandora stutter, plus the lack of add ons.... I'll give it another shot when it gets out of beta
- trezor 18y agoThe funny thing was how I had everything crash much more in Chrome (which was supposed to be crash proof), compared to Firefox 3 which to date has yet to hang on me once. That whole "multiple processes" hype sure was cute though.
- whatusername 18y agosame here.. I guess it's flash, shockwave, etc not playing nice - but still --> FF stays up - Chrome crashes (and freezes often!)
- mhartl 18y agoI'll give it another shot when it gets out of beta Given Google's beta coughGmailcough record, I wouldn't hold your breath on this one.
- unalone 18y agoYeah, but their products do generally improve. I have high hopes for Chrome.
- metatronscube 18y agoI'm still using it, I miss some extensions...but ff is just too buggy and slow.
- kalid 18y agoAgreed. FFox is way too bloated, even with "8 gazillion tricks to speed up ffox!". The only must-have extensions are Firebug and Web Dev Toolbar, so I keep firefox around for debugging purposes. For everyday browsing it's chrome all the way.
- mroman 18y agoI agree . . . and it is a shame. Never thought I would see the day when Firefox is the most troublesome, aggravating, and downright crappiest app on my machine, both on Ubuntu and (yes, I still have to occasionally use it, so I dual boot) XP. Actually thought it was just MY problem until now . . . ahh I miss the 1.5 days . . . IE is still worse, but, not by much. Sad thing is, I think the FF guys KNOW it, and simply don't give a crap. I mean, if they did, they would have done something about it . . .
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- trezor 18y agoI must admit I went back to Firefox 3, which for the record is awesome, after less than 4 hours. Haven't really used Chrome since. Might prefer that over Safari for CSS-testing, but that's it.
- trezor 18y agoFrom the article: Safari, the only browser to escape Chrome's impact Translation: Despite Apple's very annoying efforts to shove Safari down everyone's throat through "iTunes updates", there is not a single Windows user out there using Safari, so Chrome could not steal any market share. Since, you know, there weren't any to steal in the first place.
- rbanffy 18y agoWell... Any non-Windows user uses a computer that's almost 100% Chrome-proof. I won't try to run it on my Linux notebook, but I am still typing in Chrome on my Windows one. And IE sucks so badly I can´timagine anyone who _prefers_ it over Chrome.
- unalone 18y agoI'm sure Windows Safari took a brief dip as well. But the majority of Safari users run OS X, and so there wasn't as large an impact. There are people who like Safari, you know, for the fact that it's a good browser. And some of those people run Windows.
- Prrometheus 18y agoI like Chrome, it's just annoying to have to pop open Firefox every time I want to run some Flash content.