Do you use Chrome or Microsoft Edge

[lowell holmes]

Just curious.
I started with Chrome and added Edge later, I just use Chrome. It is difficult to teach an old dog new tricks.

[Lee Schierer]

I use Firefox.

[Ron Selzer]

Chrome at work, edge at home

[Kev Williams]

Firefox.

Programs that self-install and assert themselves as the default program are no better than viruses IMO...

[Dan Bundy]

I use the Brave browser.

[Rob Luter]

Both. Mostly Chrome for Mac at home but both Chrome and Edge at work with a PC. It depends. Most of our web based apps at work run better on Edge.

[Rich Engelhardt]

Chrome on both PC and Android phone.
I enjoy the ease of how they work together.

Probably death on any kind of security - but - it's still really convenient.

[Alan Lightstone]

Chrome. Every once in a while Firefox, as weirdly there are a few sites that don't seem to work correctly on Chrome and freeze.

[Erik Loza]

My wife works with patient-facing electronic health record software. Because of this, she has access to extremely detailed statistics as far as what browsers the “average person” (being the random person who checks in for a doctor’s appointment) uses. According to her, it’s primarily Chrome. Firefox is in the minority and decreasing, from what she sees.

Erik

[Ole Anderson]

Chrome on my PC.

[Jim Becker]

Hasn't changed...Chrome is my go-to across multiple devices and operating systems.

[Curt Harms]

My wife works with patient-facing electronic health record software. Because of this, she has access to extremely detailed statistics as far as what browsers the “average person” (being the random person who checks in for a doctor’s appointment) uses. According to her, it’s primarily Chrome. Firefox is in the minority and decreasing, from what she sees.

Erik

I'm a little bit curious about the decrease in Firefox numbers. There's something called user switcher agent. It identifies one browser as another to connected devices. It was a big thing when Internet Explorer ruled the roost. A site wouldn't work correctly if it wasn't connected to Internet Explorer. There became a Firefox add-on that identified Firefox as Internet Explorer to connecting devices. The web site in question worked fine with Firefox but didn't want to if the client browser wasn't Internet Explorer. I wonder if we're seeing the same thing with Google Chrome today. There was a time when Firefox was slow and Chrome was fast on Windows - I never noticed slow on Linux- but today Chrome is reputed to be more of a slug and more resource hungry than Firefox. It also helps to have a couple add-ons in Firefox to limit ads and Javascript. Google makes $ billions slinging ads, do you think they want browsers to limit ads? Particularly one that bears their name?

[Jim Becker]

Curt, Professor Dr. SWMBO was always a major FireFox user over the years, but even she has moved over to Chrome as primary at this point since some of the University systems get ornery with other browsers. The Chromium "heart" is also beating in a lot of other places now, including in Microsoft's Edge.

[Alan Rutherford]

... it’s primarily Chrome. Firefox is in the minority and decreasing, from what she sees. ...

Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Even that source has different statistics depending on what you want to count but the message is about the same. Making a browser the pre-installed default on a major operating system helps a lot with its popularity so it's no surprise Chome is doing so well. Safari is hanging in there. Those of us who never touch an Apple product also never use Safari but few Mac and iPhone owners use anything else.

And how many people these days will install a browser? I still occasionally have to explain what one is.

I use Firefox on the desktop but had to look to see what the browser is on my phone. Turns out it's "Samsung Internet Browser". Google tells me that's really Chrome, so I guess I'm contributing to the popularity of the Google family.

[mike stenson]

Safari is a pretty slim browser, compared to the bloatware that Chrome has become. If your phone is google based (which android is), it's going to use a chromium browser. I agree, however, the days of third party browsers really are over. Which is why you see what you see. It's predominately marketshare of mobile devices.