I usually use chrome, but I've got firefox as well. The family computer in my house runs firefox.

I'm using firefox. But I also use chrome to manage my second google account.

I'm one of those people who is still using internet explorer because it's what's on my task bar...

I've tried chrome and I don't see what others see in it, my biggest gripe is it doesn't like refreshing the page despite being refreshed and the cashe cleared. It keeps displaying older pages and as a webmaster this just doesn't fly. I swear I spent 3 hours trying to figure out why this code I was trying to implement wasn't working on chrome.

Then my friend tried it on his and it was working, and on my other friends. So, that's one reason to skip chrome.

DustyDrB:

-There wasn't a search bar (I have at least a dozen search engines saved for the Firefox search bar)

Thats actually a huge reason i switched to Chrome, I found i kept accidentally typing half-keywords into the address bar when i was in a hurry, or safari/firefox was loading slowly and ended up at face.com instead of searching facebook.

But i use firefox for web dev :)

I've been an Opera user for the last few years. Can't say I regret from switching to it from Firefox.

I'm a chronic tab user, Opera all the way.

I use all three: chrome for general browsing, Firefox for compatibility browsing and the occasional use of a flash downloader plugin that, as far as I know, Chrome doesn't have an equivalent for, and Internet Explorer for government websites and other sites that tend to pitch a fit anytime you don't use something from the very narrow list of browsers they were designed for (I seriously had to borrow my mom's laptop to fill out the FAFSA last year, because I was up to date on all of my browsers, while the government was up to date on none of them -- not even IE.)

By the way, 2004 was not the first time IE had any competition. When I was growing up Netscape -- the browser from which Firefox is descended -- was most the browser of choice for most people who weren't on AOL. Netscape, in turn, was the direct descendant of Mosaic, the first web browser in history. IE was a relative latecomer.

9thRequiem:
Opera here (along with less than 2% of the web ...). I tried Chrome; was just too slow to render pages, and by the time you put on enough extensions to make up for missing features, incredibly weighty.

Erana:

I'm sorry, but changing "teaspoons" to "tablespoons" and "Baking soda" to "baking powder" just IS NOT OKAY.

Wow, it does that? That could easily end very badly ...

TWO PERCENTERS UNITE! >:D

Have you checked the sources for this? When the exact same story came out in August 2011, it turned out to be a wish fulfillment fantasy/ hoax by the original author.

Nope, still using firefox and am satisfied with that.

Chrome is great, but I don't use it because of the Google spyware it contains (it gives your PC a unique ID and reports everything you do/visit/etc. to Google). It also has a poorer range of extensions than Firefox. I recommend using Chromium, the open-source basis for Chrome, instead.

That said, I'll be sticking with Firefox because of the aforementioned quality of add-ons. Both browsers are very good, but I prefer Firefox's feature set and look/feel.

Truth be told I've never liked Opera. I feel the UI is clunky and it's always been very slow for me compared to other browsers.

That's actually true, but IE is still my back-up browser. Certain plug-ins just don't play nice with Chrome and when it's really important that the browser doesn't crash IE is still my top choice.

Used to use Firefox, but after v3 it became every bit as slow and bloated as IE was accused of being while at the same time IE was shedding pounds.

Good to know that Microsoft has competition now.

Chrome is fast and best, it does exactly what I want and nothing that I don't.

I use Opera. Fast and reliable, as far as I can tell. I actually don't know. It's never given me any trouble at all, though, unlike the other browsers I've used. Plus, I don't trust Google.

I'm among the people who Chrome works perfectly fine for, never had an issue with it.
Also, Spongebob predicted the future. Everything IS Chrome now.

Nah, I use Firefox, as I find it faster, and it handles tabs way better imo. It also appears to still be ahead of chrome in terms of customization and addons, but with the popularity of Chrome and the millions of Google dollars, we may see Chrome eclipse Firefox soon enough.

Can anyone tell me if they fixed adblock plus so you can now block video ads with Chrome? Because that was the main reason that kept me from trying it out previously, I don't understand how anyone can deal with those pesky Youtube ads.

These numbers show how good marketing affects the usage, as Opera is still the fastest browser, as far as I know, but the overall usage dropped to roughly 2% percent.

00slash00:
ill switch to chrome once it get stumble upon, email notifications, and weather forecasts. until then, ill stick with firefox

Then I welcome you to the Chrome club. Chrome supports all of these via extensions (plugins).

The StumbleUpon one has been available for over 2 years now.

EDIT: Pretty much all of the popular Firefox plugins have been ported to Chrome. Anyone who uses the excuse that Chrome doesn't have the plugins they use probably hasn't checked in the last 3 years.

SpAc3man:

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ill switch to chrome once it get stumble upon, email notifications, and weather forecasts. until then, ill stick with firefox

Then I welcome you to the Chrome club. Chrome supports all of these via extensions (plugins).

The StumbleUpon one has been available for over 2 years now.

EDIT: Pretty much all of the popular Firefox plugins have been ported to Chrome. Anyone who uses the excuse that Chrome doesn't have the plugins they use probably hasn't checked in the last 3 years.

oh wow, im really behind. thank you for opening my eyes

Honestly, the only reason why I still have Internet Explorer on my computer is because Microsoft forces you to use it for certain things. Other than those moments, though, the stupid thing collects dust while I happily open up a Google Chrome window to get the rest of my business done.

Greg Tito:
not counting Safari if you're a pesky Mac-user

Guilty as charged and proud of it!

I use FF for the most part and on occasion use IE and have never even considered using Chrome since the others work perfectly fine for me.

I've tried Chrome, but I don't get the hype.

It crashes frequently to the point of absurdity.
It has dumb glitches like not being able to ever turn off Google Instant.
It has next to zero customization for things that matter like toolbar placement (oh wait, you don't get any toolbar options!), tabs, and whatnot.
It has bare-bones options, as in options-options
It lacks an about:config for increased customization and optimization like firefox.
It reloads pages so that if you have several tabs open and go back to one it will have to load again, even though it already did it the first time.
It cannot handle having many tabs like firefox can, and typically crashes when you do.
It just doesn't feel secure as far as browsers go, especially since Google searches have become hit and miss (especially google images, where a random and completely innocent image can be a virus).
It always seems to crash when I try to use a session manager with more than a couple tabs because the damn thing tries to load every tab at once instead of one - finish - then the next - finish - ect., something firefox does.
And it doesn't even have a tab scroll if you have a lot of tabs; it just shrinks the individual tabs until you can't tell what they are.

Don't get me wrong, I use it alongside firefox and opera and I certainly prefer it over IE, but it just has so many damn flaws that I wish they'd work on. The lack of user control really makes Chrome irksome for me and has become the unusually common reason why I wind up cursing at my computer.

The real question is why do the links in the article link to an almost identical article with links in it to another article that is almost identical. All written by Greg Tito.

AstylahAthrys:
Why yes I am. For a long time I jumped from browser to browser to see what I liked best and finally I settled on Chrome. I tried to switch back to Firefox for awhile, but I ended up coming back. Now I make my mom and my sister use it, too, because you don't let loved ones use Internet Explorer if you really do love them.

I tried to get my parents to convert. Closest i could get them is Firefox.

I have failed them!

_{Although I'm pretty sure a thread like this has appeared before but...}

Ha! No i'm not. It's Internet Explorer 9. I don't use chrome as I dislike its layout and the fact that Adobe Flash Player tries to shove it down my computers throat whenever I have to manually download and reinstall the plugin. Though I do use firefox on my laptop but thats due to it being the only browser it can handle without spazzing out too much.

Still using Firefox 3.6 - I dislike the changes made in version 4, can't stand the new layout. And since my browser and all its extensions still work perfectly, I don't see a reason to change it.

I need to switch from Explorer to something else, it keeps getting this stupid bug where it "disconnects" me from the internet but i'm able to access the internet in any other way other then through the browser, like playing an online game, accessing steam etc.

its really a pain in the arse.

I thought chrome was on top for longer than this. Oh well, it's good to see that genuine innovation wins against microsofts entire 'USE THIS. OR ELSE. REALLY, IT'S GOOD. WE PROMISE' philosophy.

God I hate Microsoft. I'd get linux back in a heartbeat if it could suddenly support most new game titles.

I actually want to use Chrome as my default browser but it gives me incomplete downloads for some reason. Not all the time, but often enough that it makes me wary until they fix the issue or I find out what the problem is on my end.