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It's mentioned in the article though not really on topic but...any idea why Chrome has been losing users for 3 months in a row? Where are they going to? Firefox

by rlu 14y ago

It's mentioned in the article though not really on topic but...any idea why Chrome has been losing users for 3 months in a row? Where are they going to? Firefox? Why? What is Chrome doing wrong/others doing right?

pav3l 14y ago
The thing about statistics is that it can be different depending on who measures it. According to StatCounter[1] Chrome's share has been rising from 34.21% to 35.72% in the last 3 months. [1]http://gs.statcounter.com/ http://gs.statcounter.com/
aluhut 14y ago
I realised that both crash (possibly because of plugins) BUT it is easier to kill one Firefox process in the task manager then x Chrome processes. Adblock works with ff better also. I use Opera as secondery browser.
- philwelch 14y ago
  I don't use Windows, but Chrome's Adblock Plus works great (perfectly if you disable the "allow not-so-bad ads" preference) and I've never had all my Chrome processes go rogue, usually just one, and I can kill it by closing the tab itself or by using Chrome's process manager.
  - aluhut 14y ago
    I've seen Ads in Chrome I haven't seen in years. Nasty popups also. I am not the only one with the experience so I guess we two are just not surfing the same pages but belive me: it is not as good as the one for FireFox. Even if I don't understand why...
brianchu 14y ago
I'm a Firefox user. Extensions are a big deal for me. I'd love to move to Chrome, but: 1) I use tree-style tabs (tabs arranged in a column at the left) in Firefox since I usually have 10-some tabs open. Chrome used to have this but they disabled it, and no extensions for this work. 2) Firefox uses less memory (older versions of FF used to be notorious for leakage, but the benchmarks I looked at showed Firefox outperformed Chrome in memory usage). Granted, Chrome probably has slightly faster page loading.
hendzen 14y ago
I still use Chrome on my OSX MBA, but on my Ubuntu desktop I switched back to firefox because I found Chrome to be buggy. Also, the flashplayer implementation on Chrome is terrible.

by rlu 14y ago

pav3l 14y ago

The thing about statistics is that it can be different depending on who measures it. According to StatCounter[1] Chrome's share has been rising from 34.21% to 35.72% in the last 3 months. [1]http://gs.statcounter.com/ http://gs.statcounter.com/

aluhut 14y ago

I realised that both crash (possibly because of plugins) BUT it is easier to kill one Firefox process in the task manager then x Chrome processes. Adblock works with ff better also. I use Opera as secondery browser.

philwelch 14y ago
I don't use Windows, but Chrome's Adblock Plus works great (perfectly if you disable the "allow not-so-bad ads" preference) and I've never had all my Chrome processes go rogue, usually just one, and I can kill it by closing the tab itself or by using Chrome's process manager.
- aluhut 14y ago
  I've seen Ads in Chrome I haven't seen in years. Nasty popups also. I am not the only one with the experience so I guess we two are just not surfing the same pages but belive me: it is not as good as the one for FireFox. Even if I don't understand why...

brianchu 14y ago

I'm a Firefox user. Extensions are a big deal for me. I'd love to move to Chrome, but: 1) I use tree-style tabs (tabs arranged in a column at the left) in Firefox since I usually have 10-some tabs open. Chrome used to have this but they disabled it, and no extensions for this work. 2) Firefox uses less memory (older versions of FF used to be notorious for leakage, but the benchmarks I looked at showed Firefox outperformed Chrome in memory usage). Granted, Chrome probably has slightly faster page loading.

hendzen 14y ago

I still use Chrome on my OSX MBA, but on my Ubuntu desktop I switched back to firefox because I found Chrome to be buggy. Also, the flashplayer implementation on Chrome is terrible.