This one snuck up on me a bit. I had dropped Chrome for Opera and Firefox. I don't use Chrome itself, but
SRware Iron, and now that is relegated to my 3rd tier browser. Has Chrome really become that good?
QuoteChrome poised to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox (https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220396/Chrome_poised_to_take_No._2_browser_spot_from_Firefox)
Google's Chrome is on the brink of replacing Firefox as the second-most-popular browser, according to one Web statistics firm.
Data provided by StatCounter, an Irish company that tracks browser usage using the free analytics tools it offers websites, shows that Chrome will pass Firefox to take the No. 2 spot behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) no later than December.
As of Wednesday, Chrome's global average user share for September was 23.6%, while Firefox's stood at 26.8%. IE, meanwhile, was at 41.7%.
with my unreasonably paranoid hat on I don't use Chrome, but surely its less a case of how good it is (and most people seem to like it) and more a case of it being promoted by Google? They're almost what MS used to be, to the man in the street, now?
I might be partially responsible. Every time I get asked to help someone setup a new machine I inevitably just throw Chrome on there for them, add a few security extensions and ad blockers, and then leave it alone. The seamless updating in the background is a real plus. It's simply not that smooth with any other browser.
For several months i've been using the Comodo browser, based on chromium - simply so i can just flip between chrome and comodo rather than switching accounts, but Comodo is supposed to call home less. There are some browser based on Chromium that never call home, but then you have to subscribe to know when to update
http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php
I use Chromium on linux - it is VERY good IMO - everytime I have to use Firefox it ends up annoying me.
Chromium v Chrome
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome
Chromium on Linux here too. Works okay except for on half the newly redone pages on Yahoo.