Chrome overtakes IE globally

Its no real surprise really. IE has never really been all that popular to begin with. From the start it was always bulky and slow and I can remember a few monumental crashes. Back then it was before I knew about other browsers. I switched to firefox, and then later moved on to Chrome, but with my laptop, chrome was too intensive, so tis back to firefox. I use it on my desktop as well, and only use chrome for a few things.

Interesting stuff. I always thought Chrome was a breath of fresh air, and although was an early adopter, before it had extensions it was pretty limiting.

But this was weighed up with the speed and smaller memory footprint. IE was always memory intensive and the usual bloatware. FF was good, then lost its way, now seems to be getting better. I now use FF and Chrome, mainly because I'm lazy, and FF is set up with one google ID, with Chrome set up with another

Chromes only blip was last year when for a few months it went buggy and was crashing non stop, to the point I had to stop it auto updating and installed an older version. Google forums were awash with the same issue, but they eventually stabilised it, and touch wood it's been stable for me for the last 8 months or so.

I think Google are sometimes too quick to roll out new functionality and shiny things without doing adequate testing. With them now moving into the top spot, it's time to start acting a bit more responsibly as businesses have better things to do than troubleshoot a rogue browser. Keep it fast, keep it stable and I'm happy

Personally Chrome served me very well. Has been using it for few years without running into any major problems(well occasional crash rarely). The only time I use IE now is for topcashback or quidco

I've been a Chrome convert ever since I first tried it. I did have the same problems with it crashing a while back, it all seemed to be something to do with Flash and didn't happen all the time. I did install FF but then as everything I used was set up in Chrome I kept using Chrome. Thankfully the bugs stopped.

What I have found though is certain web sites still only work on IE, this is becoming less and less but still means I have to boot it up every now and then. How can professional web sites be so unaware of Chrome and FF?

I think its still an industry standard in some businesses, but you're right, they should still have sites compatible with all browsers. I have seen that some sites (especially online virus scan companies) will only work on IE, so maybe its a software thing that it can only work on IE and not on anything else maybe?

Tend to see some banking sites won't load up in Chrome, or some of the functionality doesn't work.

About the only time I use IE now, just to check the bank!

Great, I love Chrome - lots of useful extensions most of which I use daily.

However, its usage varies depending on what you read. For example statcounter say: "In addition to grabbing a third of the global browser market, Google Chrome has also apparently become king of the hill in Europe last month, surpassing Firefox for the first time".

But...

Net Applications say: "Google's Chrome browser lost usage share for the fifth time in the last seven months, while Mozilla's Firefox gained share for the second consecutive month"

This is a pretty decent post:

Browser wars: four years of PC Pro site stats | Analysis | Features | PC Pro

i ditched explore at version 6 and have never looked back. Chrome and FF are far better and chrome is still the favourite for its speed. Ff comes in handy when i want to do fancy stuff with the help of add ons. I'd hate to think how crap and slow the latest IE browser would be.

The last version I used was IE9. I had to do some software testing on it, and to be honest I was glad to be done with it. I know some companies still use it as a requirement, but in all honesty, I can't see how they can work with something like that. It takes an age to load, everything loads "with errors", and it gets really annoying most times.