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I had Chrome installed for 3 days. Started getting all kinds of issues with my other apps. When I deleted it, all my issues disappeared. I'm staying as far away from this browser as possible.

As a web developer, Firefox used to be my go-to browser to test my sites and see them as they should be seen. It was rock solid. But over the past few years, Firefox has deteriorated into a complete mess. I used to have to debug infuriating display issues with IE (particularly the joke of a browser, IE6). Today I spend more time debugging Firefox issues than I do IE issues. And good lord, just launching Firefox takes an eternity before I'm actually chugging along on the Internet. Bah humbug, I say! Chrome is now the gold standard for a standards-compliant browser that shows HTML and CSS as it's meant to be seen.

For everyday use, Safari has long been my favorite browser for its speed and simplicity. But lately, good gawd it's been a dog! My scroll wheel regularly stops working in Safari. I get the spinning beach ball of doom viewing the simplest of web pages. It's to the point where Chrome just may permanently unseat Safari from its throne.

I'm of the opinion that most typos aren't really worth caring about or mentioning -- but this one seems significant to me, as it materially changes the meaning of the sentence: In the next to the last paragraph, isn't "Net Applications had IE falling by almost two percentage points to 32.1%..." supposed to be "StatCounter had IE falling..."?

I'm not sure what all the hoopla is about Chrome. I've installed - and quickly uninstalled - the last three versions on both my Mac and my Win machines. It does not work and play well with others. My Mac spent a lot more of the time beachballing than anything else. This problem went away when I went back to FF. And my Win machine actually bluescreened! Remove Chrome, no problems.

I go between FireFox & Chrome with ust a couple % of Safari use. I had been using Chrome until a couple of weeks ago when it seemed to start causing some problems. But many of my problems I have is because I usually have several windows open for each browser with 10 or more tabs for each window. Bot browsers like it better with fewer windows open.

heisetax, on 01 June 2012 - 03:34 PM, said:

I have 8GB of RAM and I suppose this is why I don't have the problems. Chrome has protected memory allocated to each tab, so it will be a RAM hog.

I've never had a single problem with Chrome. It's fast, stable, and simply the best browser I've ever used. Until Safari speeds up and adopts Chrome's common URL / search input field, I'll stick with Chrome. Firefox is okay, but it's no Chrome.

I've never understood the mania for Chrome, it's an okay browser with a weird non-std interface that's owned by the biggest advertising, user tracking and privacy invading corporation on the face of the earth. What's not to like?

What's the deal with MS silently replacing IE 9 with IE 8 (or even 7!) on Win 7 systems though? Was that a misprint in this article or is there some reason why MS would want to remove their latest and most secure browser on their latest OS?

Given the relative rankings of the top five browsers, Safari doesn't belong in the illustration of browser icons at the top of the page. While it's understandable that a Mac centric web site would have a Mac bias, the illustration doesn't even remotely represent the content of the article. It's just lame. Pathetic even.

Are they completely disregarding mobile usage? I'm not sure that can be justified at this point.

Raymondo17, on 01 June 2012 - 10:07 AM, said:

I was using and enjoying Chrome, but after some weird issues with my MacBook Pro, I looked under the virtual hood, and realized Chrome was using a ridiculous amount of memory. While it's good at opening up memory when you close tabs, any given tab just seems to increase in memory usage until you close it, to the point where my entire system would be at a crawl because 2GB of RAM was being used by five open tabs. For whatever reason, it seemed to be much worse with self-refreshing sites, such as Facebook or the New York Times front page. So, while I was really enjoying Chrome, I felt like I had to give it up. Now, I'm using Safari, which also frustrates me on the RAM front, but that is usually fixed by a quick quit/reopen (technically I could have done this with Chrome, too, but Safari seems better at remembering what I had open and is faster at reopening).

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