Is Firefox dying?
- Thread starter SkyRider
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This kind of info is available on the net .... however the stats very significantly, although the trends are about the same:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201402-201502
Based on looking at multi-year trends, I'd conclude that Chrome is the most popular by far and is growing marketshare by a 3-5% a year. All other browsers are in a slow decline by 2-3 % a year.
According to the developers and white-hats I work with, IE technically is a better browser: it's complies with the applicable standards more-so than Chrome and Firefox, tends to more reliably and correctly render web pages and is in the top 3 in rendering speed. Me - I prefer Chrome's GUI, simplicity and lack of hassles. IE is constantly asking me if I want to turn-off extensions, every time I use it. Annoying!
Side note, Flash on Chrome is constantly crashing on the sites I visit and requires a PC reboot. I've reloaded both Flash and Chrome several times, I'm guessing it's a website coding problem. Annoying as hell! Works on IE though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201402-201502
Based on looking at multi-year trends, I'd conclude that Chrome is the most popular by far and is growing marketshare by a 3-5% a year. All other browsers are in a slow decline by 2-3 % a year.
According to the developers and white-hats I work with, IE technically is a better browser: it's complies with the applicable standards more-so than Chrome and Firefox, tends to more reliably and correctly render web pages and is in the top 3 in rendering speed. Me - I prefer Chrome's GUI, simplicity and lack of hassles. IE is constantly asking me if I want to turn-off extensions, every time I use it. Annoying!
Side note, Flash on Chrome is constantly crashing on the sites I visit and requires a PC reboot. I've reloaded both Flash and Chrome several times, I'm guessing it's a website coding problem. Annoying as hell! Works on IE though.
I still use it despite problems off an on "Not Responding" etc.
I like the adbloocker ad on feature etc.
Never got accustomed to Chrome but don't use it as it seems to link every google account you have, and possibly collects information on everything you do for google.
IE was just too vulnerable to attacks from spyware, adware etc. Stopped using it years ago and had Opera as a backup to access the internet in safe mode in case of any virus problems.
I like the adbloocker ad on feature etc.
Never got accustomed to Chrome but don't use it as it seems to link every google account you have, and possibly collects information on everything you do for google.
IE was just too vulnerable to attacks from spyware, adware etc. Stopped using it years ago and had Opera as a backup to access the internet in safe mode in case of any virus problems.
I prefer FFOX - chrome... you have no idea (maybe you do, but if you don't you are in for a surprise) how much tracking they can do on you when you use chrome.
In milliseconds - Google knows who you are, where you are, what you are looking at, what you have looked at, how long you've been looking at that nice pussy, and makes corelations as to what you should see for ad's and synchs that shit with android devices. You are googles wet dream when you use chrome and your worst enemy.
In milliseconds - Google knows who you are, where you are, what you are looking at, what you have looked at, how long you've been looking at that nice pussy, and makes corelations as to what you should see for ad's and synchs that shit with android devices. You are googles wet dream when you use chrome and your worst enemy.
HELP, I love Firefox but recently every time I try to do a search with Firefox,Bing ( which I hate) takes/hijacks it??
Any idea how to fix this?
Any idea how to fix this?
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You have to be vigilant. Every time you download add-ons or programs from the Net, the manufacturer attempts to get you to agree to adding their fucking stupid scam tool bar or making them your scam default whatever-the-shit. It pays to spot their little scams and uncheck whatever box supposedly gets you to agree to their little exploits when you install the program. No doubt at some point, you agreed to make that asinine ad-ware scam Bing your default search engine.
So this is how you kill it: Go to the top right hand corner of the screen and click on the 3 weird horizontal lines logo. This is sort of an "everything else you might want to do to the Firefox program" link. Click on "options". Click on the "search" tab. Then eradicate Bing from your list of search engines and insert Google as the default.
Let me know how it works out for you.
FF is starting to blow large lately. It eats up too much RAM and I have only a handful of addons. I'm seriously considering trying K-Meleon, seems like it may be lighter and faster.
I refuse to use Chrome.
I refuse to use Chrome.
Not with that resource intensive 'plug-in container'. RUBBISH!
Nothing but problems! Even when disabling it it still manages to come back...
I've almost completely stopped using FF because of it. Too bad...
