Recent reports indicate that Google Chrome now absorbs nearly 30% of the web browser market share worldwide (source). Its main competitors are Internet Explorer with a little over 52% all versions included, and Firefox with now less than 12%.

In fact, if you exclude Chinese web users (who are usually stuck with old pirated versions of Windows and awful IE-based browsers) the numbers are even more impressive:
1. Google Chrome: > 52%
2. Internet Explorer: > 15%
3. Firefox: > 15%
4. Safari: > 9%
(source)

Things have changed a lot over the past 10 years and it's impressive to realize how much Chrome has changed our browsing habits. What is your opinion on the subject? Do you use Google Chrome yourself? What is the best web browser?

 

[Adeka]

you can modify ff to have a decent ui again

I LOVE my customized UI on Firefox!

Spoiler

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I use Chrome on pretty much all my PCs. Don't care about RAM usage since every PC I consistently use has 4GB+ of RAM and it has little to no impact on system performance, at least in my 4 or so years of experience using it. Dunno why anyone else has a problem, unless they're going around trying to open 50 tabs and running 12 VMs and trying to render 4K video all at the same time.

Though once Microsoft Edge gets addon support I might switch to that, it's quite a nice browser upgrade especially compared to its predecessor.

 

[VinsCool]

I use Chrome on pretty much all my PCs. Don't care about RAM usage since every PC I consistently use has 4GB+ of RAM and it has little to no impact on system performance, at least in my 4 or so years of experience using it. Dunno why anyone else has a problem, unless they're going around trying to open 50 tabs and running 12 VMs and trying to render 4K video all at the same time.

Though once Microsoft Edge gets addon support I might switch to that, it's quite a nice browser upgrade especially compared to its predecessor.

I have like 5-6 tabs opened all the time on my shitty laptop, I never had a single RAM issue lol.

 

[Deleted User]

I LOVE my customized UI on Firefox!

Spoiler

Spoiler: This one's mine

 

[endoverend]

In other news, Chrome approaches 70 percent of RAM usage worldwide...

 

[VinsCool]

In other news, Chrome approaches 70 percent of RAM usage worldwide...

I don't see the problem in my end

 

[endoverend]

I don't see the problem in my end

View attachment 24505

That orange mark on the bottom of the memory column concerns me It uses more memory than most other browsers...

 

[VinsCool]

That orange mark on the bottom of the memory column concerns me It uses more memory than most other browsers...

180MB over 3Gb isn't going to kill my computer

And I have a lot of stuff running in background too.

63% overall used, not that bad actually xD

 

[endoverend]

180MB over 3Gb isn't going to kill my computer

And I have a lot of stuff running in background too.

63% overall used, not that bad actually xD

I know it won't *kill* your computer, but at least for me (8GB) Firefox in general performs better and so do other applications without Chrome.

 

[VinsCool]

I know it won't *kill* your computer, but at least for me (8GB) Firefox in general performs better and so do other applications without Chrome.

I believe you are right.

But I won't change something that is already working fine for me

I never really used firefox, I dunno if there's much advantages, apart from RAM usage reduction

 

[endoverend]

I believe you are right.

But I won't change something that is already working fine for me

I never really used firefox, I dunno if there's much advantages, apart from RAM usage reduction

If it ain't broke, don't fix it I guess. But chrome was pretty broke for me, and switching to firefox really helped.

 

[Monado_III]

I use Chrome (personally) for one very simple reason, it has built-in flash support (and I can't for the life of me figure out how to install Chromium on F22, never mind, they fixed the issue that was stopping me), anyways my entire school is required to run Chrome because, Google. Whenever I start Firefox it runs far slower than chrome does for whatever reason, heck I can start chrome within 3 seconds while it takes over 10 to fully load FF.

 

[LightyKD]

Chrome all the way for me my house is basically a Google home so, I'm happy to see Chrome taking over.

 

[Qtis]

Memory issues on chrome are being worked on.

http://chrome.blogspot.fi/2015/09/chrome-improvements-for-faster-and-more.html

 

[Monado_III]

Memory issues on chrome are being worked on.

http://chrome.blogspot.fi/2015/09/chrome-improvements-for-faster-and-more.html

wait, what? right now I'm updating chrome to v47, yet that shows v43 vs v45, and that blog was written today.

 

[Haloman800]

Chromium all the way, very fast, great extensions.

 

[HaloEffect17]

I use Chrome. It's not perfect, and I don't personally go around advocating for it, but it's a heck of a lot better than IE. Ironically, I used Firefox before using Chrome, and while I don't completely detest it, I just grew to enjoy my experience with Chrome as I kept using it more frequently. And yes, the add-ons for Chrome are great.

 

[Costello]

How were you able to determine the % after factoring out the Chinese users? Its cool that Google is making its way to the top, wish them the best as they are always trying to make progress in advancing there company and not sit idle.

StatCounter can't collect data from China, they're blocked there, so their stats dont include chinese users
apparently this isn't the case for Netmarketshare

 

[Costello]

wait, what? right now I'm updating chrome to v47, yet that shows v43 vs v45, and that blog was written today.

I am on Chrome 45 which got updated just yesterday morning.
Are you maybe registered on the developper channel or something?

 

[Monado_III]

I am on Chrome 45 which got updated just yesterday morning.
Are you maybe registered on the developper channel or something?

yeah, I just realized I was updating "google-chrome-unstable" and seeing as how there's no actually 'unstable' version listed here, I'm probably installing the dev version.