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Chrome gets free advertising on the world's most valuable website where you can't buy advertising for any price: the Google Search home page. Google also spend
by scholia 10y ago
Chrome gets free advertising on the world's most valuable website where you can't buy advertising for any price: the Google Search home page.
Google also spends tons of money paying companies to stealth-install Chrome when users think they're installing something else from, for example, Adobe.
I'm not saying Chrome is a bad browser but it sure as heck ain't a level playing field....
- Touche 10y agoVery true, and it was just as true a few years ago when Firefox was able to keep pace. So I think it's fair to say they are slipping.
- scholia 10y agoFirefox was out four or five years before Chrome appeared. When it started, it was competing against an aging IE6. I don't think it has never kept pace with Chrome. Or if so, not for very long. Even if the products had been equally good, which they weren't, Google just has far more market power.
- Touche 10y agoIt kept pace with Chrome up until a few years ago, probably around the time that Eich left. Not saying that's causal, I don't know if it is.
- cpeterso 10y agoAs recently as last year, Google was paying Adobe to bundle Chrome as an opt-out install when Firefox users downloaded the Flash NPAPI plugin. The irony is that the downloaded NPAPI plugin would not be used because the Flash installer would set Chrome as the default browser and Chrome bundles its own Flash PPAPI plugin. Screenshot: https://twitter.com/cpeterso/status/714510465620021248 https://twitter.com/cpeterso/status/714510465620021248