IE -> Firefox -> Opera -> Chrome -> Chromium -> Firefox
Now that Chrome has become the new IE of the web, I sometimes have to switch to a Chromium-based browser for some sites to work. For this, I rely on Ungoogled-Chromium.
How does he know his ratio of browser usage 15 years ago? I couldn’t even provide that figure for last year let alone more than a decade in the past
I feel like I'm the only person who's skipped chrome all together.
IE(because there wasn't much choice) -> Mozilla -> Firefox -> Palemoon
I keep firefox installed because some sites don't play nice with palemoon, but i've never used chrome for any extended period. I played with chromium a while ago but I didn't like it.
I've never really understood why chrome became so popular, when I tried it, it felt like a step back fromm firefox in every way. Sure it's better than IE, but that's not really a very difficult thing to accomplish. I'd rather use lynx than IE.
For me it was
Netscape -> Firefox -> Chrome -> Firefox
But I had to use IE in some jobs.
Mosaic -> Netscape -> Firefox -> Chrome -> Firefox
IE only if it's REALLY required by badly designed products/sites.
Hard to remember, but I think something along the lines of:
lynx -> OS/2 WebExplorer -> Netscape -> IE -> Mozilla Suite -> Camino -> Firefox -> Chrome -> Safari -> Samsung Internet
(also the Emacs browser at some point, but hard to place it into the timeline)
I tried to build a timeline, but couldn't. I've switch back and forth too much. At various times, pretty much every browser was ahead in some respect and worth my interest. After a while, some other implementation would pull ahead and I'd switch.
Right now, I'm almost using a different browser on every device:
Safari on my iPhone X and iPad Pro Opera on my MBP for browsing, Firefox sometimes for development Brave on my Windows-based gaming computer
early 90's on the Mac: NCSA Mosaic -- my comment at the time: That will never catch on.
late 90's on Mac and Windows: Netscape, Windows95+ on PC: Internet Exploder
2001+ iBook: Safari
2008+ Intel Mac: Firefox
today Ubuntu and Debian on Intel laptops: Firefox and Chromium, Android: Firefox and Chrome, PowerPC Macs: TenFourFox, Roccat (WebKit)
Any long time Mac users here? For me it was
IE (for Mac) -> iCab -> Opera -> OmniWeb -> Safari (for a long time) -> Chrome (when it was new) -> Firefox
I installed brave to test its crypto implementation, but its not available. Kept using anyway for the adblocking.
Pretty sure mine is something like
Firefox -> Opera -> Firefox -> Chrome -> Iridium -> Chrome -> Firefox
These obviously guesstimated statistics are a thinly veiled attempt to promote Brave, right?
I'm always surprised that Brave is so popular among the HN crowd. I guess that cryptocurrencies are the hot new thing, but Brave's alleged future business model is "hide ads from web pages, and then show our own". That's shockingly sketchy.
Using a built-in cryptocurrency to convince users to do their marketing for them under the promise that they might get rich in future when the value goes up is, admittedly, clever, if evil.