Chrome to overtake Firefox in popularity

[Jojoyee]

"The climb of Chrome during 2011 has been astonishing: It has gained eight percentage point since January 2011, representing a 50% increase.

During that same period, Firefox has dropped almost four percentage points, a decline of about 13%, while IE has also fallen four points, a 9% dip.

That means Chrome is essentially reaping all the defections from Firefox and IE, and it may may pass Firefox as the world's second-most-popular browser by the end of the year 2011."



Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...t_from_Firefox

[Anupam]

Oh whatever, Firefox still rules for me

[deya]

I just wonder how many of those Chrome downloads were the result of people doing it because it was bundled with something else they downloaded? I know Chrome is very popular but I sometimes come across it on desktops and the user doesn't know what it is - which I find to be totally bizzare in itself, but there you have it. Maybe they could get FF bundled with MSE or whatever to get the ratings back up

[MidnightCowboy]

Well, Chrome (or rather SRWare Iron) has overtaken Firefox for me because it won't run, or rather it won't shut down.

This is a new install of W7 Ultimate, yes I've messed around with a few security programs but nothing very drastic What happens is a page takes too long to load so I go back to the search page and click the link again which then opens the page as normal. Finish session and close. All seems OK until I go to start again whereupon I get a message saying Firefox is already running. Sure enough, there it is in task manager which is the only way I can shut it down. Same things happens with CometBird and Pale Moon. Opera and SRWare Iron are unaffected.

Any ideas?

[jim]

I must admit I occasionally get the same FF problems MC but it's still the one for me.

[Anupam]

Any extension which is common to all three? That might be the cause of the problem. Try reinstalling Firefox MC. I have read about complaints of Firefox not shutting down properly. I have had that very rarely. Sometimes, its quite slow to release memory, and shuts down after a long time. I observed that when I played flash games. But, it was only for sometime, after that Firefox behaved OK.

[MidnightCowboy]

Found this after I posted:

http://carpesomediem.hubpages.com/hu...closing-issues

Seems ongoing. I have WOT, AdblockPlus and NoScript installed, but I also have GreaseMonkey with Ritho's WOT script. I'll need to look at this tomorrow when I get more time.

[Anupam]

That article seems to be quite old. The starting comments are 2 years old. I am using the same add-ons as you, except for NoScript.

[Jojoyee]

My experience:

Stage 1: I used to like FF until Chrome came out.
Stage 2: I used to like Chrome until FF4 came out.
Stage 3: I used to like FF until FF6 came out, which I intermittently encountered "Not Responding" in Win7.

Current Stage: Using Chrome 14 happily as my primary browser, and FF7 as a secondary browser.

[rikishi19]

There's something about Chrome that irritates me so I'm unlikely to ever use it.

I had an initial try after it not long got released and again a few months ago. I just don't feel comfortable using it. It may also have something to do with their tactics of offering it as a bundled install through other software as already mentioned.

I use Firefox and probably always will unless something major happens to it. I currently use Opera and IE as alternatives to Firefox.

I also find it quite astonishing that the major downside people seem to have with Firefox is its high resource usage, when in fact it is actually no worse than Chrome really, as if I'm not mistaken Chrome just seperates its processes out so this goes unnoticed to many users just what the real resource usage of Chrome is. Plus half the people that moan about resource usage usually have a heap of tabs and extensions open. Just because more extensions are available for Firefox and installed, does not mean it has worse resource usage. Chrome would be just as high under identical circumstances I'm sure.

The issue you are having MC does seem to be quite frequent amongst users though. On my parents XP machine, just after closing Firefox and trying to re-open, it can say it is still running and could take up to a minute before the process closes. This only happens rearely though, not every time. I have no idea what causes this. It seems to affect people randomly.