every time these statistics come up, i will post the last 2 weeks from my own server. pretty much 100% US/CA audience. site category is home remodeling, DIY, contractors.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgXFz9xLvI4UdHp...
IE9 passes 20% market share, Firefox falls below 20%, Chrome loses users
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Re: IE9 passes 20% market share, Firefox falls below 20%, Chrome loses users
#42I see tons of ads for IE. Never for FF. Microsoft's marketing is working. FF is slower than Chrome (at least the desktop versions). FF still doesn't have separate processes for tabs, so when one fails, the whole browser crashes.
FF is slower than Chrome
Re: IE9 passes 20% market share, Firefox falls below 20%, Chrome loses users
#43I actually do most of my debugging in IE now - and I've actually come to like the devkit they've got going. Ok, I am developing for internal intranets which of which my primary is IE, but they've actually come a long way. In terms of PC browsers (Mac is a different story) I'd probably put Chrome first, IE second and Firefox third. I still prefer Chrome, but partly because it is my preferred browser on Mac too - I lik…
How can you possibly say IE's F9 Developer Tools are anything more than barely workable? Ugh.
Re: IE9 passes 20% market share, Firefox falls below 20%, Chrome loses users
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm lamenting the poor performance of the browser. I have nothing but massive respect for the developers. But I marvel at the difference and see that even with all these updates, the gap between Chrome and Firefox gets wider and wider.
That's not a universal perception. Perhaps there is something borked with your firefox install.
Or maybe it's not Firefox at all, but rather my Chrome install went better than normal and has resulted in abnormally good performance.
Re: IE9 passes 20% market share, Firefox falls below 20%, Chrome loses users
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
It also shows Chrome at double of what Net Apps says. I've been following Chrome's growth over the years, and the Statcounter number for Chrome seems a lot more likely than the Net Apps one.
Statcounter doesn't count users, it counts raw hits. Both numbers are relevant for different reasons. If you agree that Chrome users surf more this could easily account for most of the difference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
That is strange, because Net Apps also counts the iOS browser (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) as something like 50-60% market share, when there are only 400 million iOS devices and 500 million Android devices. I doubt the majority of Android users have never used the browser.
Re: IE9 passes 20% market share, Firefox falls below 20%, Chrome loses users
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Statcounter doesn't count users, it counts raw hits. Both numbers are relevant for different reasons. If you agree that Chrome users surf more this could easily account for most of the difference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
That is strange, because Net Apps also counts the iOS browser (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) as something like 50-60% market share, when there are only 400 million iOS devices and 500 million Android devices. I doubt the majority of Android users have never used the browser.
Wild guesses:
(1) I've heard the old Android browser on some phones can report it's user agent as safari or some generic looking webkit that might get folded into safari numbers.
(2) site bias? Purely as an illustrative example imagine if Apple.com was one of the sites in Net Apps network while Android.com was in the Statcounter network.
(3) actually accurate. The wikimedia numbers are 10% mobile safari and 4.5% android.
Re: IE9 passes 20% market share, Firefox falls below 20%, Chrome loses users
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I .. believe you, I guess. You obviously tried the current versions and they weren't for you. Still, I'm baffled. I removed Chrome from my Android devices (what for?) and only have it on my desktop machines for tests. I start it once every fortnight. Firefox, with its sync feature, keeps my browsing experience in order. I've to admit that I'm using the Beta 'channel' on both Windows and Android. The readability mode…
I'm lamenting the poor performance of the browser. I have nothing but massive respect for the developers. But I marvel at the difference and see that even with all these updates, the gap between Chrome and Firefox gets wider and wider.
This sounds like confirmation bias to me, rather than real world use of both browsers. I use Firefox as my primary at home, and Chrome at work (web developer) and I find very little difference in performance in real world use between browsers.
As for frequent updates, Firefox is a little more noticeable because you see it checking your extensions, but they don't update any more frequently than Chrome. If anything, they still update less frequently.
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Aurora is what, a pre-beta release? And you're comparing it to the production Chrome? And who cares about memory use on the desktop? I got 8GB, and my browser never even gets close to maxing that out. 16GB can be bought for around $45.
I care about memory use, i've been able to get Chrome up to >8g of memory used with no problems. Firefox rarely gets over 2g with similar use.
You're saying Chrome uses 4 times more memory than FF. I call bullshit.
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I care about memory use, i've been able to get Chrome up to >8g of memory used with no problems. Firefox rarely gets over 2g with similar use.
You're saying Chrome uses 4 times more memory than FF. I call bullshit.
When the top 5 processes on my system are chrome, and all over 1.5gigs in size call bullshit all you want. But when I close chrome and 8 gigs of memory is freed, I call that bullshit.