Chrome Surpasses 30 Percent Market Share For The First Time

I'm proudly one of these individuals in this statistic. I stock trade with this browser, research endless websites to view their Investor/Quarterly results sections, browse news/information, media,... all from this seamless, very responsive browser that never crashes on me.

To all us Chrome users: Cheers!

google chrome??... nahhh firefox with a good "about:config" configuration can kick chrome ass...

Are there people who use IE by choice? I have absolutely no data, but my perception is that of the people who still use IE, like 98% of them use it because they haven't tried anything else and because it's what was on their computer when they turned it on.

I'm just curious if there are lots of people out there who prefer IE to the other choices or are forced to use it because of compatibility issues or anything like that.

I use IE by choice, but i also use chrome. I dumped firefox a while back because of the memory issues and the painful startup times. Even tho those have been addressed, its too late as i now prefer IE9 and Chrome over firefox any day. Add in X-Marks (Last Pass) and ad-block plus extensions, maybe speed dial or any of the other hundreds of useful plugins/apps for chrome. the public IP widget which is handy, Flixter, Wells Fargo.

I for one am forced to use it at work as the intranet at our company is compatible with IE only. If i am browsing around on the internet, I can fire up another browser all-day-long without an issue with that though.

Chrome always had one heck of an advantage - the push from the biggest internet site in the world. You cannot visit google.com or many other sites and say you've never seen the advertisements. I know of many people that have no clue what a Firefox is, but with also mentioning a percentage of those same people have at least heard of Google Chrome. Chrome has been around for a fraction of the time Firefox has (see previous sentence also), yet how are we also on like version 20 already in a couple of years?

Is there also a way we could differentiate Computer and smartphone use here or am I missing where it may state this? If the two are reported as one, that would explain a lot for the Android explosion factoring into this. Congrats Google either way!

I smell something burning. Let the flaming begin!

Chrome and Android are different things. Chrome is the browser and Android is the operating system.

Chrome sux, it can't do multiple tab rows as FF can. That's the only reason why I haven't switched to it yet

I use Chrome (default browser), IE9 (proudly by choice!), and Firefox (superior adblocking) because they all have their pluses and minuses. There truly is no "superior" browser.

all three modern browsers are perfectly usable. Only the people still on IE6-8 are doing something wrong. so no flaming.

That said, I do prefer chrome for a number of personal reasons. First, I started using it before firefox over went it's face lift. Firefox looks perfectly nice now but I don't see a reason to change again. Second, it's made by google and i'm a sucker for their products.

Right you are, but what browser do Android phones run?

In other news:

Google plans on releasing their Chrome version 666 on December 22, 2012. This version will be one to die for!

I use Internet explorer only. Never installed other browser on my pc. But what the hell, I'm a strange person. Explorer and a custom hosts file to block ads and other crap and I'm good to go.

You can run any of several browsers on android. I know Firefox has an android app and there were rumors of a chrome app for android at the end of last year but I haven't checked since then. My phone is about a year old and the default browser when I got it was just called "browser" and to my knowledge it is not related to chrome.

IE USer by choice, but I use Firfox from tiem to time...chrome...nope.

It's hard to find concrete info on exactly what the default browser really is (keyword that I left out of the previous post being "default"). The most I have found was that it is a derivative based on Chrome's engine and mixed with whatever a handset manufacturer decided to go with - but it is NOT 100% Chrome. Does that still make it register as Chrome? I don't know and that is another question by itself really. Only one I can say for sure is that using the iPhone browser registers it as Safari - but can the same be said about the default browser for Android phones? If you switched to something besides the default browser, that's an obvious answer then.

SRWare Iron > Chrome

Congrats Google. Microsoft and Mozilla, get your competition up.

I use chrome, but lately it's been crashing a lot. i guess it's the shockwave flash plugin crashing.

I'm not surprised, I've been using Chrome for the last 5 years. Never a problem. It doesn't crash it's fast and I like its user interface.
I stopped using IE simply because it stinks. There's always a problem with something or another and I just got tired of dealing with it. IE is a big headache.

So, I wonder how many Chrome users use that browser because of google's sneak-ware installs when you install pretty much all of the free applications and utilities google pays to install chrome when people just do the 'next' 'next' 'next' 'next' method of software installation.
Almost everyone I've spoken to have no idea how chrome got installed and why its their default browser, and because they're too scared or lacking in computer ability to remove it google gets these bogus marketshare numbers and users get a shitty browser experience and have pretty much everything they do online spied upon by google for that corporation's personal gain.

I try chrome every so often but its such a nasty ugly browser I never stick with it for more than a few hours before moving back to FF with its much better adblocking extensions and far more userfriendlyness.

Also, I just plain don't trust google any more, especially with their new announcement that they are now collating your activities across all google products and services to better target you with adverts for shit you don't give a damn about, and promoting google+ pages over the sites you actually want. I'm sick of google delivering pages worth of search results trying to sell me the thing I'm trying to research rather than the information I actually want. Bing does a MUCH MUCH better job, and looks a lot nicer too.

@matt_b
Android doesn't have the Chrome browser yet, so no they re not counting mobile. Android uses a Webkit based browser (same engine used by Chrome and Safari), but it's not Chrome.

Perhaps Microsoft will begin to insist Google.com display other browser choices as it could be considered an unfair advantage.

I use Opera on my android, apparently the lighter option for smartphones, but I've not tested them all.

He knows this however many versions of android come with a chrome browser.

I tried to use Chrome for a month. I discovered a few issues with Chrome that need to be changed before I'll try it again.
1. The way it displays lots of tabs. Pinned tabs take up too much space and when you have 40+ tabs you cannot see an icon or anything on the tab itself. Makes it a pain to switch between them.
2. Extensions don't work as well or have as many options as they do in FireFox or IE (for the same extension).
3. Not all webpages loaded correctly and some where incompatible with Chrome all together
4. When reloading lots of tabs on startup, it is MUCH slower than the memory hog FireFox.

I'm forced to use IE for outlook web access. Only the lite version of outlook web access is available for other browsers.

Im done with Firefox. Used it for the last year at work as they blocked Chrome downloads. Firerfox is way over hyped and I personally found it to be rather slow and the update process annoying and a pain the butt.

I use Chrome at home and while it has a few quirks I am most happy with it. For all the FF fanboys crying about adblock being so great in FF, chrome has one too and I am never bothered with annoying ads.

I don't know what your talking about. You have to download and Install the Google browser to your computer unlike IE which is provided with the Windows operating system. Additionally, you have to select to make it your default browser. I get the impression you think you have some specialized incite when you say things like "because they're too scared or lacking in computer ability to remove it " Are you kidding me !!! LOL With regards to your privacy, you lost it the second you signed on to the internet. Don't kid yourself. We live in a very very small world now. I guess its just a matter of personal taste which browser people prefer.

I wish these small market increase articles on Toms where maybe once a year instead of every other week. The only thing more iritatating is the "I use...." comments that follow.

I've used multiple browsers. The technical differences between them these days have become esoteric, the reason why I'm using IE9 is because it uses up the least amount of top screen space.