No apples and oranges here starkers.....

The first part of my response post was to counter your statement that most of the people you know use Firefox as their main/default browser.  I stated that in my circles (ie. with the people I know both professionally and personally) that is most certainly not the case.

The second part of my response post was to support Leo the Lion's statement with regard to Firefox no longer being a competitive browser.

Neither of the preceding statements or the responses to same suggest an 'apples to oranges' situation.  Of course maybe 'apples and oranges' means something different in your circles.....? 

and did you?

I said neither.  Of course I did say I won't be surprised when Firefox finally dies.......

In the enterprise environments I have been with, if an app or site does not work with IE ( and that is happening MORE and MORE ) then the fallback is ALWAYS Chrome. Firefox is not permitted to be installed.

Yes Monk, the Fox is gurgling a dying breath. Even the latest incarnation is a complete dog compared to Chrome.

Mobile is 4% of browsing, as a whole.  FF is #2 at 25%, IE has less than half that.  If we're going to write one off as having gone the way of Netscape, Microsoft is in a much better position despite having theirs come with the OS.

the_Monk, The only thing I like about FF is its customizability, but it has a momentum all its own and a rather devoted following, so I don't see the hounds catching the fox any time soon.

I like Chrome, but understand those who are paranoid about it.

Not sure I understand the concept of 'complete dog' as it applies to browsers.

I long ago switched to Pale Moon to avoid Firefox's recent attempts to become Chrome.

It is slow to respond, it eats memory (although not as bad as it used to )... it lays about and scratches fleas. 

source?

i could ask for a source here as well. i wont though, as no available source is reliable. some say Chrome has a 60% share, others say 25%. the problem is that all these sources use only a small amount of websites and are geographically biased. and if you use anti-tracking tools, well ... you wont be tracked and are not part of these statistics.

Google is probably the only one that has reliable data, they don't release it though.

on topic: good move, will make dealing with computers safer for the "i clicked a link somebody sent me"-crowd. everyone else will find an other way to download those YouTube videos anyways.

Nope. All the other browsers could beat me with baseball bats and rape my dog and i still wouldn't use that bloated piece of crap known as firefox.

In this age of computers when we have 4 to 8 GB of memory coming standard on many computers why is it a big deal when Firefox uses half a gig of memory? I use Firefox because of all of the custom extensions no other browsers have. And it's pretty good blocking ads with the extensions I use.

I use Palemoon, also, but FTR it is Firefox with some non-windows stuff stripped out.

For me it isn't the memory usage as much as it is the slow and sluggish interaction with it. Every thing I do with Firefox feels like I'm running through sludge. Chrome just isn't that way.

As for ad blockage.. ABP and that's all I really need.

However, we should really stop pissing on FF and IE in this thread though. The good Dr was kind enough to point out that Chrome has taken some positive steps to stop malicious activity. No need to tromp on it any further here.

User error.

Agreed.