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The infographic linked out to in last week’s post from Addthis.com, showed Chrome overtaking Firefox in the volume of shares in Nov. 2011.
This reminded me of a question I’d been pondering earlier in the year and I picked up a second reminder today with Mashable‘s story regarding browser sharing and Chrome’s growth over 2011.
I’ve embedded the graphs from the two sources mentioned at the end of this post and my question to you is ”What browser or browsers do you use?”. I spotted a habit forming in the summer of 2011 – during a day I would use three browsers; Chrome, Firefox and IE, each for a different on-line task.
Chrome is used for the majority of my tasks, say about 50% which includes updating Web Analytics World, marketing activities and some Google work. The next 40% of on-line tasks including the remaining Google and marketing tasks, as well as some forum work is actioned through Firefox and IE is kept for Facebook and checking single links.
The main reason for me is laziness and a dislike of logging out/in of different accounts on the same applications, although I have found that some applications work better on different browsers (it may just by my PC but I’m sure IE slows my google searches and applications).
So I’m very interested about what you use, are you a one browser user or do you chop and change browsers depending on your task/application?
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To be honest I was much surprised to find out that Explorer is on the first place! As far as I know the majority of its users are not satisfied with its speed and other features, and they change it into Firefox or Chrome. And I’m among all these people. But still thanks a lot for sharing this statistics with us
At present I primarily use Firefox on my main computer, though its not because I dislike the other browsers. Previously I mostly used Explorer but then one day for some unknown reason I was no longer able to select text from web pages. This was extremely annoying given that I tend to copy page titles for tweets and things of that nature. I also had Chrome but decided to move some non-essential applications to a larger drive to free up space, it messed up Chrome and I haven’t been able to successfully reinstall Chrome.
I found that I prefer some features of Firefox compared to Explorer (Stumble Upon toolbar, plug-ins, etc.) and an IT guy told me to stick with Firefox as its more secure. I still occasionally use Explorer when I’d like to watch something on the internet on my TV while using the internet on my computer.