Chrome overtakes IE to become most popular browser

[Venustus]

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http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/chrome-overtakes-ie-to-become-most-popular-browser-1.1823163

Mozilla’s Firefox continuing to decline in the US, study shows.

Google’s Chrome is now the most popular internet browser in the world, according to a new study.

The latest Adobe Digital Index (ADI) report reveals that Chrome, which was already the biggest browser outside of the US, has now overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in the United States.

According to the study, Google now commands a 31.8 per cent market in the US, up 6 per cent year-on-year. Internet Explorer is down 6 per cent to 30.9 per cent while, Apple’s Safari is the third most popular browser with a 25 per cent share.

Mozilla’s Firefox browser is now at just 8.7 per cent, after falling from a near 20 per cent share over the past two years. ADI attributed the decline to its lack of mobile presence.

Internet Explorer remains the leading desktop browser in the US with a 43.3 per cent share. Chrome Desktop and Firefox Desktop browsers are at 30.6 per cent and 12.5 per cent respectively. Apple’s Safari has a 10.3 per cent market share.

Safari continues to be the browser of choice for mobile though. It has a 59.1 per cent share of the mobile browser market, compared to 20.3 per cent for Android, 14.3 per cent for Chrome and 2.8 per cent for Opera. Internet Explorer Mobile market share is at a paltry 1.8 per cent.

Adobe Analytics was used to detect the browsers used for 17 billion visits to 10,000 US consumer-facing Web sites in April 2014, and more than 1 trillion visits since 2008.

“In the past, there was just one browser-Internet Explorer-and the others were insignificant by comparison-they just really didn’t matter,” said Tamara Gaffney, principal analyst at ADI.

“Today, the market is fragmented. There are four big players, and there is a certain portion of the digital audience using each of them, depending on which device is in use at any given time. Marketers can no longer develop for a single browser-especially in the mobile space,” she added.

 

[Oxygen]

 

[conceptualclarity]

ROFLMAO!

I still insist Firefox is better than Chrome, and Pale Moon is better than Firefox. Chrome is fine if you don't care to add extensions and you don't do multiple-tabs browsing. Firefox and Pale Moon can handle 300+ tabs better than Chrome can handle 25 tabs.

 

[Venustus]

Indeed!

 

[FreddyFreeloader]

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[Venustus]

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I agree that it may be more secure from a "security perspective",but in terms of "productivity" I find it awkward to use!
Thanks for the link!

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

Thank you for this very applicable article, venustus.

It has seemed Internet Explorer (IMhO) has ever been a favorite son, though not always in the ways & niceties of a benevolent sibling. For as long as I've known about the internet, this bigger meaner brother has traditionally gotten away with behaving just as he's pleased. Now that our big brother I.E. has finally grown up to become a mature & highly functional member of the family, with refinements and performance enough to have been delegated my wife's favorite browser, along came the Heart Bleed virus (the home wrecker..) which helped sentence our newer better Explorer into exile in the minds of a great many. Now, I find myself keeping default company with Chrome's portable version, and The Lady of our house having buried the hatchet with her new old browsing friend from Mozilla, uses the new Firefox!
I'm on Pale Moon x64 that has just updated. It has been (& still is) freezing as I type. Maybe it's that my system simply needs a "restart". After restarting, I shall return to using Chrome or maybe even Firefox while keeping an open mind to the buggy way my Windows 8.1's behaving. So, this helps illustrate how easy it can be to understand how in this brave world of newer improved free browsers, I.E. is, albeit much improved, becoming a most popular also ran browser! I am going to use it with enhanced security enabled!

 

[conceptualclarity]

Thank you for this very applicable article, venustus.

It has seemed Internet Explorer (IMhO) has ever been a favorite son, though not always in the ways & niceties of a benevolent sibling. For as long as I've known about the internet, this bigger meaner brother has traditionally gotten away with behaving just as he's pleased. Now that our big brother I.E. has finally grown up to become a mature & highly functional member of the family, with refinements and performance enough to have been delegated my wife's favorite browser, along came the Heart Bleed virus (the home wrecker..) which helped sentence our newer better Explorer into exile in the minds of a great many. Now, I find myself keeping default company with Chrome's portable version, and The Lady of our house having buried the hatchet with her new old browsing friend from Mozilla, uses the new Firefox!
I'm on Pale Moon x64 that has just updated. It has been (& still is) freezing as I type. Maybe it's that my system simply needs a "restart". After restarting, I shall return to using Chrome or maybe even Firefox while keeping an open mind to the buggy way my Windows 8.1's behaving. So, this helps illustrate how easy it can be to understand how in this brave world of newer improved free browsers, I.E. is, albeit much improved, becoming a most popular also ran browser! I am going to use it with enhanced security enabled!

Do you have Sandboxie, Cats-4_Owners-2? It froze Pale Moon up for me hopelessly.

For people who prefer the Chromium type browser but don't like Google's spying the daylights out of you, there are alternatives. I think Comodo Dragon is a better browser than Chrome. There is also a new one called Slimjet which I think is pretty good

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

Do you have Sandboxie, Cats-4_Owners-2? It froze Pale Moon up for me hopelessly.

For people who prefer the Chromium type browser but don't like Google's spying the daylights out of you, there are alternatives. I think Comodo Dragon is a better browser than Chrome. There is also a new one called Slimjet which I think is pretty good

conceptualclarity, me thinks Comodo's Dragon flies stronger for you on XP (as it did me) than it's fully armored 1/2 sibling with whom it shares Chromium lineage! I sandbox all browsing, but upon reading Sandboxie will stop support for XP, I've begun thinking long over systemic protection alternatives. In lieu of my inability to resist ever opening XP, (staying on topic) I've turned away from it's recently patched I.E. 8, and understanding Sandboxie to be a closing option on XP, installed Time Freeze http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Toolwiz-Time-Freeze.shtml