Edit: Yes guys I know, I am aware of the borderline monopoly Google has had on the browser space. My question should have been: Who is tech savvy and is using Google Chrome voluntarily?
I bet those numbers are inflated by work and school computers forcing it down your throat.
Unfortunately I am. I really really don’t want to be but somehow Firefox has turned into a buggy mess. Maybe it’s just me but I have so many issues with it.
Dragging into a browser window doesn’t work half the time. Trying to drag a tab nearly always bugs out the window resulting in no mouse clicks for tabs or address bar. Something screws up sometimes causing browser to flip to a random tab every time I switch back to a window, somehow related to pressing CTRL+ something. Sometimes the mouse cursor in a textbox/textarea screws up where it’s not positioned where I’m typing, and I’ve even seen it go backwards while I type.
I have experienced these things often, albeit most of them only after having multiple windows open with many tabs. And they’re not isolated to just one installation on one computer.
I’m just baffled how there can be so many consistent issues though. So much so that I can’t justify using it over Chromium any longer, even with all of the issues with Chromium.
I’ve been using Firefox since the beginning, and I’m an adamant supporter of them. I really hope they get these things sorted out.
They install it on my work laptop without my saying so. I uninstall it every time, and until they explicitly ask me to use it, I’m sticking with Firefox.
Does that count people using programs that you can’t control using chrome on the backend such as Steam? It wouldn’t be installed at all on my system if it weren’t for stuff such as that.
Shit take lol, seeing as Edge doesn’t install literal malware (yet)
If anything, everyone that’s tried to incessantly shove Chrome onto Internet Explorer users for years knowing full well about all its privacy issues owe them all an apology.
Lol who is even using chrome still?
Edit: Yes guys I know, I am aware of the borderline monopoly Google has had on the browser space. My question should have been: Who is tech savvy and is using Google Chrome voluntarily?
I bet those numbers are inflated by work and school computers forcing it down your throat.
People who are forced to use it because web developers have abandoned non chrome based browsers in their testing and validation.
Unfortunately I am. I really really don’t want to be but somehow Firefox has turned into a buggy mess. Maybe it’s just me but I have so many issues with it.
Dragging into a browser window doesn’t work half the time. Trying to drag a tab nearly always bugs out the window resulting in no mouse clicks for tabs or address bar. Something screws up sometimes causing browser to flip to a random tab every time I switch back to a window, somehow related to pressing CTRL+ something. Sometimes the mouse cursor in a textbox/textarea screws up where it’s not positioned where I’m typing, and I’ve even seen it go backwards while I type.
I have experienced these things often, albeit most of them only after having multiple windows open with many tabs. And they’re not isolated to just one installation on one computer.
I’m just baffled how there can be so many consistent issues though. So much so that I can’t justify using it over Chromium any longer, even with all of the issues with Chromium.
I’ve been using Firefox since the beginning, and I’m an adamant supporter of them. I really hope they get these things sorted out.
Tech savy people are ignorant as well. My colleagues are all into Meta, Google and stuff like that
3.62 billion users as of March
…God damnit.
Well, at least one of those users might be my Flaresolverr machine with a Chrome user-agent header
They install it on my work laptop without my saying so. I uninstall it every time, and until they explicitly ask me to use it, I’m sticking with Firefox.
Ayy what’s up twin.
“Oh our portals are only certified for Chrome. Firefox won’t work.”
I beg to differ.
Chrome’s last genuine use died Aug 2024 when Puppeteer started supporting Firefox.
About 68% of the world according to this.
It’s even a vast majority in China.
That’s a little surprising.
Does that count people using programs that you can’t control using chrome on the backend such as Steam? It wouldn’t be installed at all on my system if it weren’t for stuff such as that.
Electron identifies itself as electron in it’s user agent so you could easily identify and separate it out.
Also I doubt most companies leave the user agent as the default, they probably change it for whatever version the app is.
Ah that makes sense, thanks for the info!
Which again confirms my assumption that most people are idiots.
Some might call you an idiot for “not wearing the right clothes” or “not eating X”.
Just because others don’t have the same amount of interest about something, albeit having some would help, doesn’t mean they’re idiots.
How many Lemmy users are on chrome.
Any admins have stats?
I bet 10 bucks not a single Lemmy user is using chrome.
It’s the most popular browser by user base. It’s today’s Internet Explorer.
The people who are slightly less braindead than edge users lol
Shit take lol, seeing as Edge doesn’t install literal malware (yet)
If anything, everyone that’s tried to incessantly shove Chrome onto Internet Explorer users for years knowing full well about all its privacy issues owe them all an apology.
Nah. At this point, Edge is actually a technically superior and slightly more trustworthy browser than Chrome.
Deliberately using Chrome rather than Edge is super braindead.
Heard.
Edge? The browser that stores credentials in the clear? That Edge?
The edge of security!
You think Chrome doesn’t?
They don’t. This one is on Microsoft.
What the hell they’re both Chrome!!