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Comment by Renaud | Hacker News Reader

As of just now:

* tag [internet-explorer]: 27,934 questions

* tag [google-chrome]: 28,153 questions

Since the number of questions is your metric for attributing shame, that surely imply that chrome is much worse than IE, especially considering the long legaccy and larger install base of IE vs Chrome...

Or, I don't know, could it be possible that the number of questions reflects more than just how bad a piece of software is?

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[internet-explorer] [internet-explorer-{version}]

[google-chrome] [google-chrome-{version}] [google-chrome-extensions] (4,194 questions) [Chromium] (893 questions) + Chrome on Linux, Mac and Windows.

Chrome also contains extensions, that would explain why there are a lot of more questions about "Chrome" + i think more tech-savaged people prefer Chrome to IE (because of dev tools), so SO wouldn't be a good reference for an objective market share view.

Looks like some people took my comment very personal. Notice that not anywhere I mentioned other browsers, and whether having a lot of issues is a good or bad thing. It's just weird the way they made the announcement.

A 0.8% difference in a measurement this vague is enough to claim something is "much worse" than something else?

Chrome has by far the larger install base. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

for a little over 2 years, chrome has been more popular than IE

SO is 6 years old

Now it does, but there was a time, at least when SO came online, when IE had a much larger install base, and older, troublesome versions of IE were still fairly popular.

That's wrong. Statcounter measures usage , while Net Applications measures user share and IE has by far the larger install base.

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