> Someone like me is not "just a niche". It's also the type of person that recommends (evangelizes even) a browser or app to every single friend he has. Don't f

> Someone like me is not "just a niche". It's also the type of person that recommends (evangelizes even) a browser or app to every single friend he has. Don't forget that's exactly how Chrome "beat" Firefox, if I can say that - by winning over the evangelists. You're saying "don't forget that..." as if that was an established fact, but did studies confirm this? I doubt it. I don't have numbers either so that's only one feeling against another, but I think you overstate the importance of evangelists / "power users" like us. There are other factors that (to my eyes) seem much more likely to have pushed users towards Chrome, like: - Giant physical ads in subways (in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, maybe others?). - More ads on the web. - Very visible hints to switch on high-volume domains like google.com and youtube.com - Chrome having a mobile story earlier letting users sync their bookmarks & passwords across devices. By comparison, Firefox (with Firefox Sync) took some time to land on Android, and is barely arriving on iOS. - The sorry memory-hungry, inefficient state of Firefox when Chrome was young and slim (which was fixed since then, but hurt the Firefox brand a lot).