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The forecast model market shares add up to more than 100% once Firefox rebounds. Probably not a good forecast.
 
Chrome is just awesome, adblock works well for me and it has only crashed once (12 youtube vids + downloading a few podcasts) for me.

O and btw, I don't know what type of programs some of you guys download, but most I have seen offer a firefox install instead of chrome.
 
It looks like the curves have been fitted independently from each other. At the end of 2012 the total market shat of all browsers is at 110%. Really strange.
 
Firefox is the most stable browser in my opinion,I rarely find any problem when using it except the incompatible problem when auto updated to the new version. It's one of my favorite browsers apart from chrome and Avant browser.
firefox is stable and has various add-ons, chrome has fast speed, Avant browser has trri-core rendering engines and some useful build-in features I like. These three browser work perfectly in my win7 64 bit.
 
When i have many tabs open, chrome just feels so laggy. Dispute its reputation, I really find Firefox to be quite a powerhouse when in comes to handling heavy usage.

Anyone complaining about "crashes" should look to disabling misbehaving addons or submit a bug report. Constant crashing is not a problem you should be having. It never crashes for me and I keep open 50+ pages for weeks at a time.
 
Firefox is the best combination of open/customisable/intuitive ui and they are really making gains recently on speed.

One thing that irks me is the start up time and irrecoverable errors, but I haven't tried other browsers to know if they are really better in the same situations.

I've attempted to use chrome, but the UI is frustrating and seems targetted at the simpler end of the market where moderately advanced features are harder to get at when these should be available to all users as quick as searching for a website. (It seems the same issue of the incrementing windows 7, where if you can't find it in a start bar search, you'll have to go on the web to ask someone, which is complete oppisites of intuitive.)
 
[citation][nom]aevm[/nom]Sure, competition does lead to better browsers. However, as an application developer, I also see how developers and testers have to spend lots of extra time to make sure the application works on IE, FireFox and Chrome now. Sometimes this means you have to drop features, or take more time, or charge more for the application. All bad for the user who wants to buy that application today. The developer will lose too, because higher prices lead to fewer sales, and taking more time hikes costs.[/citation]

But it helps if the browsers agree on universal web standards, instead of repeating Netscape's and Internet Explorer's propitiatory incompatible game.
 
[citation][nom]xerroz[/nom]Long live Firefox. I refuse to surrender my privacy to Google[/citation]

Every time I hear this I get more and more sure, are you trying to hide something? Who really cares what Google takes? I have been using Chrome for about 2 years now, banking, sites where personal info must have been stored. My side business uses Chrome in all transactions. And not 1 problem has arisen.

Look at it this way, if you really want your "privacy". Then don't store it on the computer, because Google, Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft are all capable of taking your info if they want. Who really thinks those company's would have a problem?

(So, if you re worried about the stuff you store and how it will be used. Telling you now, if it is saved on a computer that has internet access, it isn't safe already. -1 -1 -1, I don't care.)
 
I rather hate this "browser market" terminology as if they were not free.
 
Every time I hear this I get more and more sure, are you trying to hide something?
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For example, my entire life? Simply because they have nothing to do with it?

If you do not mind if they track you in any way, let it be. The problem is, if many people start thinking the same way, that will only encourage them to track everyone even more closely. Not only those who let them do it. Everyone, including those who are, by the way, completely against it.
 
[citation][nom]RockNRollz[/nom]Every time I hear this I get more and more sure, are you trying to hide something? Who really cares what Google takes? I have been using Chrome for about 2 years now, banking, sites where personal info must have been stored. My side business uses Chrome in all transactions. And not 1 problem has arisen. Look at it this way, if you really want your "privacy". Then don't store it on the computer, because Google, Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft are all capable of taking your info if they want. Who really thinks those company's would have a problem?(So, if you re worried about the stuff you store and how it will be used. Telling you now, if it is saved on a computer that has internet access, it isn't safe already. -1 -1 -1, I don't care.)[/citation]

Well, I wouldn't like to be filmed when I shower and this is the exact same problem. What I do on the internet be it just viewing my email or reading Tom's articles is my business and everyone else should not be privy to my life. Pointing out that the internet isn't as secure as it should be doesn't excuse it's insecurity and only tells us that it is wrong. If there were cameras in everyone's homes that watched their lives day in and day out, is it wrong, or is it okay just because that's how it is for everyone?

My life is my own and no one else has any right to intrude on my privacy. Just because you, for whatever reason(s), don't mind being watched, you find it okay for everyone and think that we only want our privacy if we do something wrong with it? I've not committed a crime, but I most certainly would like to keep my life mine instead of it becoming some commodity for companies to sell to spammers, advertisers, or anyone else.
 
I will boycott IE until they stop requiring specific ways to code CSS. I don't care if Chrome or Firefox runs half as fast as IE on Windows 8, until Microsoft gets off their asses and realizes they are no longer the standard bearer for browsers, I won't use their browser because I'm tired of coding exceptions for IE.
 
firefox 4.0~4.6 (because changing a font does NOT mean changing a revision number!) is still a cheap copy of Opera 11.

Its quite amazing that Opera is still so low, considering that its so much nicer to work with than Chrome and ff. Chrome is frustrating with its minimalism. ff, whatever - looks like Opera without many of Opera features... even Chrome is missing good user features that are built into Opera.

Try this: have 10 tabs open, randomly close out 5 tabs. Now, bring back 3 of those tabs. Opera, you can even bring-back a closed window.

I've done this. I'll open another browser window with 1-2 tabs... but accidentally close out my MAIN browser with 20+ tabs (ARGH!) But Opera *WILL* re-open that browser window if you want.

How about this, Browser-memory/cache that works after a reboot/powerup.
 
[citation][nom]belardo[/nom]firefox 4.0~4.6 (because changing a font does NOT mean changing a revision number!) is still a cheap copy of Opera 11.Its quite amazing that Opera is still so low, considering that its so much nicer to work with than Chrome and ff. Chrome is frustrating with its minimalism. ff, whatever - looks like Opera without many of Opera features... even Chrome is missing good user features that are built into Opera.Try this: have 10 tabs open, randomly close out 5 tabs. Now, bring back 3 of those tabs. Opera, you can even bring-back a closed window.I've done this. I'll open another browser window with 1-2 tabs... but accidentally close out my MAIN browser with 20+ tabs (ARGH!) But Opera *WILL* re-open that browser window if you want.How about this, Browser-memory/cache that works after a reboot/powerup.[/citation]

Firefox re-opens closed windows to. Opera is slower than FF and it uses more memory too. Opera isn't a bad browser and the upcoming versions show a lot of promise, but FF is currently better than Opera (although the difference isn't as large as the difference between FF and IE). With Chrome and FF, I have no trouble bringing back tabs, windows, and even multiple windows at once. Opera is simply nice enough to ask what you want to do on a per opening of Opera basis and although that is a great feature that other browsers often lack, it is not a deal breaker for me. Opera can't handle having huge numbers of tabs as well as Chrome and FF does it even better than Chrome, so long as they aren't CPU heavy tabs where Chrome's multi-threaded support helps it out a lot in the performance department.
 
Microsoft continues to ignore the shares held by Windows XP and Vista users and focuses on gaining share in the HTML5 market with IE9 and IE10. Losing market share is the obvious result that may be hurting Microsoft substantially in the long term.
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microsoft obviously hasn't learned from the american automotive industry namely GM and Chrysler, not everybody can afford to get a shinny new car any more means no shinny new computers or operating systems any more and alot of backward compatibility switching to cheaper or free software.
just because microsoft makes new software and it doesn't work with anderson windows machines that work with windows 98 doesn't mean anderson windows is going to upgrade or pay some one to make them operable with xp and then vista and then 7 and soon 8 or just buy all new tooling and setting machines costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each just so they can work with win7 and need a little less user input. if it's broke fix it if it costs less then buying a new one, if it's not broke keep using it. business 101
 
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