Evidently some people consider it a really big deal that IE has fallen below 50% market share. And yeah, I guess it is sort of a big deal given that IE has been above that mark for so long.
Based on the comments received on articles I’ve posted here in the past about IE, many of you said goodbye to the IE browser long ago – measured in years for some of you.
Presently, I’m using Firefox 7 for the vast majority of my browsing needs because I consider it the best computer geek’s browser (case in point: nobody does bookmark management better than Firefox). I can extend the bejeezus out of Fx. Yes, it chomps more memory than Chrome does but it’s an acceptable tradeoff considering how far I can extend it. Chrome can be extended also, but does so in a way that’s stupid, which I’ll talk about in a moment.. As for Opera.. pff.. shyeah, right. No thanks.
Let’s specifically talk about Chrome for a moment.
Will Chrome eventually become "the next IE"?
Firefox is in no danger of becoming another IE because it has already "succeeded" at becoming the new Netscape Navigator. And no, that’s not a compliment.
Chrome is slowly but surely bloating up. It’s happening in kind of a sneaky way that’s almost unnoticeable, but believe me, it’s happening.
No, Chrome will not bloat up the same way IE did as it will do it differently, but it is doing it, like this:
Uh-oh. There goes Goog again trying to make us sync everything with a Google account. Note: Sync does not speed up a browser. EVER.
Uh-oh.. there goes Chrome Web Store trying to convince us into installing a whole ton of useless crap. This is interchangeable with IE toolbars as far as annoyance level goes.
You know as well as I do when it comes to browsers that if there’s crap out there to install, people will install it. It doesn’t matter how much you educate them not to do it because they will anyway. After all, who wouldn’t want a "bouncy mouse" in their browser, right? Sigh..
Part of the reason IE turned out to be so bad wasn’t necessarily because of laziness on Microsoft’s part (although that was a factor), but rather the ability for people to install mountains of useless garbage that killed their IEs.
The mountains of garbage aren’t like the old days of separate executable installers to get things in the IE browser. Now that garbage is in the Chrome Web Store, where it’s even easier to install crap that even before.
This is progress?
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i wont ever install a game maybe a few social apps on chrome but never a game there useless to have
It is surprising that IE remained this popular for this long considering the competition is so much better. I guess you could cal it laziness or people just not being educated about better alternatives to IE.
Yeah David; I think it’s the latter. – I know that many non-geeky people I know use IE because it was there from the start and can’t be arsed to change it. To their mind it works so why fix it? – Lol if only they knew…
I switched to Chromium (from Firefox) for a little while last December because I needed a lighter weight browser on an older computer I was using at the time. When I started using a better computer, I continued using Chromium because I preferred the lightweight nature of the browser. A little over a month ago I switched back to Firefox after I was having frequent issues of unresponsive pages in Chromium that I believe was caused by Adobe Flash. I have thoroughly enjoyed using Firefox again and I’m pretty sure I’ll be sticking with it barring any unforeseen circumstances.
i totally agree with you,theyre selling that crap like hotdogs,i really wonder why,im a fan of chrome,but i dont like how the way they sell that crap.
IE is now quite good again, which has made me use it after some long years.
Google chrome is good but Firefox does the business for me much better.
Google chrome the best in web browsers
http://tamindir.ucoz.com/
Yes I agree, I currently use firefox 8 but kind of hangs alot. I might switch back to chrome. They say IE 10 beats them all?
What have you got against Opera? I’ve used both Opera & Firefox & think they’re both good browsers.
Quote, ” I can extend the bejeezus out of Fx”
Could you please explain more about it ?
http://addons.mozilla.org
You can get many addons, that are really useful as Downthemall, Addblock, etc, from the Firefox site
Got sick of FF 3.x and its memory issues so I tried Chrome for awhile. Sort of liked it but my computer froze once and it blew away my Chrome profile (all my add-ins I had installed etc,). I didn’t know at the time that there might be ways to recover from this so I just started it from scratch (losing everything).
This incentivized me to take another look at FF. I installed version 7.x and now am using 8.0 on my little goofy Acer WinXP netbook (2GB ram). It runs very nicely and is my go-to browser right now. I still use Chrome and IE 8 occasionally though (when I have FF loaded up with a zillion tabs and I want to use a fresh browser).