Chrome now beating Safari in the US also

It'll always be Safari for me no matter what the market share. The Reader function, ability to dictionary-check words just by clicking on them, the minimal and Apple-native interface are all winners. I use Firefox for a couple of specific extensions and I have Chrome installed, but I find I never use it. I'd probably go Google if I was on Windows or Linux, though.

Who cares?... Yeah, I use Safari so I can sync EVERYTHING up in a nice package... no plans to ever install the evil empire's browser.

The Reader feature in Safari has taken me away from using Chrome (my primary when on a Windows machine by far). Chrome is faster on our Windows computer, for whatever reason.

I can't understand the hold IE still has, though. Firefox, I get. It's good, but compared to Chrome, it's slow (in my experience, your mileage will vary, of course). But IE? Clunky, odd layout, annoying audio clicks to disable...ugh. I'm not anti-MS, but definitely anti-IE.

...and Chrome doesn't work with 1Password yet... sad.

The new Safari is crashing a lot on heavy Flash pages on both of my machines. Anybody else having this problem?

i wonder if firefox users are moving on to chrome, instead of continuing to use firefox. i feel that people who use safari never quite felt at home with the browser.

i love safari mostly because of the shortcut keys, but can see how chrome could become my default browser.

Chrome sucks. =)

I use it 95% of the time, but for some reason when it plays videos that require Silverlight, it stutters and slows down quite a bit. Activity Mon would show Shockwave and Silverlight plugins taking up a bit of memory and using between 25-83% of cpu.

Same videos don't affect Safari and Firefox. Why do I use Chrome? I like the tabs and tab homepage better than Safari's, and Firefox is a memory hog.

I may be old school, but I stick with Firefox. I tried Chrome on my Mac, but it didn't have the extension support that I want. I don't care if Chrome is a few milliseconds faster at loading something, FF gets the job done. I have it synced between my home and work computers, and I love it (yes I realize that Chrome can do this also).

I've always been curious why it should matter? What exactly does a company like Microsoft (IE), Mozilla (Firefox), Google (Chrome), Apple (Safari) get by having their own browser? Do they make money on it somehow? Help me out hear because I'm not getting it.

Thanks.

I switched to Chrome on my Macs a long time ago. I've enjoyed browser extensions for everything I need, it's just as fast as Safari, and offers more features. Plus, it doesn't look "old."

Apple has been too stubborn with their software the last few years, and I suspect people are more than happy to move on to comparable alternatives as quickly as they come up.