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| Thread ID: 142240 | 2016-05-25 18:42:00 | Firefox v Chrome - Market Share | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 1420944 | 2016-05-26 10:08:00 | Chrome is Google, and Google seemingly is the internet. They have created a internet eco-system of a mass of popular profitable products. So the use of their search engine (about 73%) perhaps correlates to the dramatic rise of Chrome. Remember Mozilla Firefox was funded heavily for years (www.forbes.com) (Forbes article) from Google - as long as Firefox defaulted to Google Search. But when the deal ended in 2014, of which Yahoo was used, many users switched back to Google search, and perhaps jump ship to Chrome - which coincides with their increase in usage (as noted from the article form Wainuitech) |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1420945 | 2016-05-26 11:02:00 | I use chrome occasionally for sites I really want to see that are still wallowing around with flash. Otherwise, it is Firefox most of the time (99%). Sometimes use Dolphin, but not too often. When Firefox made it slightly harder to get Google as a default search engine on set-up it got a few black marks, but once I have deleted yahoo and bing from the search list (Is this a merge of bling and bung?) as possible options, I feel much better. Opera was used a bit once upon a long time ago, but for me it is just too much hassle to keep it in trim, so it is out of favour here. I probably have not used ie in this century more than once or twice; it usually gets buried. None of the MS email clients have ever been used by me, and I feel uncannily free of worry on that score. As users, we are pretty lucky with the range of choices, there's an uncommonly wide selection (for the moment anyway). |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1420946 | 2016-05-27 06:36:00 | Firefox is still my browser of choice, chrome looks weird. Every time I have tried chrome I'm back on Firefox in less than a week. Put chrome on my Linux mint driven laptop to try and solve a Flash issue that lots of forums said to do, now the updater in Mint is broken. Chrome has caused this. Personally I prefer my browser to not be permanently be tied into my email account. Chrome does not need to be tied into your Gmail account at all. You can choose to user the browser without logging in, or in Incognito Mode. You can also create multiple profiles in Chrome and easily switch between them. www.pcworld.com You can add Desktop shortcuts of profiles as well, so if you're sharing a computer with family, each user can have their own profile and set of preferences. OR you can just browse as Guest or Incognito mode. I use Chrome 80+% of the time, as I have over two dozen profiles set up for my clients, it's only couple of clicks to switch profile and use Chrome Remote Desktop to log into PCs (and Macs) for remote support. Beats TeamViewer and it's totally free, for people who does not want permanent remote access set up, they can grant access on demand as well. Apparently Chrome is/was a battery hog, however I haven't noticed it as I don't usually use my laptop for too long when away from power source. Chrome is killing your computer’s battery life bgr.com Google starts rolling out fixes to Chrome’s horrendous battery-draining problems bgr.com I use FireFox only for the one-click YouTube Downloader Add-On, it's absolutely brilliant! |
Geek4414 (12000) | ||
| 1420947 | 2016-05-27 08:45:00 | I'll stick with FF. Read a lot of posts on different sites, saying chrome is too buggy. I'll try it when someone @ Google knows how to make a browser | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1420948 | 2016-05-27 21:38:00 | I'll stick with FF. Read a lot of posts on different sites, saying chrome is too buggy. I'll try it when someone @ Google knows how to make a browser What Speedy said +1 |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1420949 | 2016-05-28 00:01:00 | I mostly use Chrome or Edge. No problems at all with Chrome. I quite like Edge it's fast but can't run some things Lightbox for example. I don't think it matters which browser you choose if what you are using works for you why change. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1420950 | 2016-05-28 01:29:00 | Pale Moon is nice :) | Zippity (58) | ||
| 1420951 | 2016-05-28 06:06:00 | So is blue moon. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1420952 | 2016-05-29 01:38:00 | Chrome i find simple, and though had slow start issues seems to be resolved. but easy to sync (with Google Account) across devices, for pulling up bookmarks. Firefox I use (less off) for customization, because - with grease monkey scripts. plenty of add-ons, extensions, using safe mode, config set up, etc. Perhaps about time Mozilla developed their own search engine - using Yahoo, which I think still belongs/runs of to MS - and Bing search engine. Yahoo is up for sale, which may mean.;..Bing as a future search engine. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1420953 | 2016-05-29 01:44:00 | Put chrome on my Linux mint driven laptop to try and solve a Flash issue that lots of forums said to do, now the updater in Mint is broken. Chrome has caused this. The fix is to open a terminal and enter the following: sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/opt/google/chrome/cron/google-chrome" :) |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
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