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"All browsers work pretty well, and being slightly faster or using slightly less memory is unlikely to sway users." Faster browsing and less memory use is the
by mnm1 9y ago
"All browsers work pretty well, and being slightly faster or using slightly less memory is unlikely to sway users."
Faster browsing and less memory use is the only reason I've ever heard anyone switch browsers outside of privacy issues. If Servo is significantly faster and uses less memory, and if it can keep that up for years like Chrome did, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see this flipping in a few years. Thankfully, he's no longer CTO at Mozilla so this actually has a chance of happening.
- acdha 9y agoThe key word is “slightly”. Beating IE6 after years of neglect was possible; going against a very good team which isn't slowing down is much harder.
- andreasgal 9y agoGoogle definitely not standing still. I hope that doesn't change despite the near-monopoly status.
- acdha 9y agoAgreed on both points
- spodek 9y ago> Faster browsing and less memory use is the only reason I've ever heard anyone switch browsers outside of privacy issues. Stability. License, at least for me. I would only use a free as in speech browser. Add-ons and success blocking ads.
- grogenaut 9y agoMost of my non-tech friends really don't know what ram is or how to check the usage. And they're not the type to actually do repeatable measurement to know if it's actually faster or not. Tech users are I'd be 10% of the total browser user base these days. So I doubt your statement having any sway on these numbers.