Here are the results of my “What is your favorite browser?” survey, here on Mastodon. These are some very interesting results.
It is clear that the incumbents are not getting a lot of love. Edge gets 2% and Chrome gets 5%. These browsers are widely used, but not very popular, based on this survey.
Safari does a lot better at 16%, the same as Vivaldi. The enthusiasm level from those that use Vivaldi is high and plenty of people also mention Vivaldi as a secondary option.
Opera gets just 1%.
Firefox gets 60%, so clearly a strong showing here in the Fediverse, although many say they use Firefox only because they do not want to use a Chromium based browser.
The cool part is then that 13% say they prefer another browser. Plenty of smaller browsers getting a mention, which is nice.
If you notice that the total is higher than 100%, then that is because I allowed people to select more than one browser, although most did not.
If you are still using Chrome or Edge, maybe it is time to try something new? You have a choice!
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@jon@vivaldi.net Are more smaller, lesser-known browsers really a good choice? I always have doubts when people switch to the latest new shiny browser that nobody knows about. Browsers have access to a lot of sensitive data, like passwords. The next shiny new browser could always also be a scam.
@gumbario@mastodon.social
I think it is always prudent to be careful with your choice of software. On the other hand, if you know that the browser you use is collecting your data, maybe it is OK to look at alternatives?
Overall I think competition is a good thing. It brings progress. Think about how the browser market would be if the only choice was IE/Edge?
@jon@vivaldi.net Competition is great, I wouldn’t be a happy Vivaldi user if we only have Chrome and Edge. But when Arc gained popularity, I wondered if we should trust it so soon. Same with all the forks of Firefox. While competition is good, security awareness is often lacking with new browsers, in my opinion.