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They lost a lot of market share when Chrome came on the scene. Partly because it was faster but also because Google promoted it and it actually had some sweet p
by INTPenis 9y ago
They lost a lot of market share when Chrome came on the scene. Partly because it was faster but also because Google promoted it and it actually had some sweet process/tab separation.
I remained a loyal FF user myself and actually wanted to take this opportunity to promote Firefox Focus which makes it real easy to browse sensitive things like porn on a tablet shared by the family or SO.
It's oriented around privacy so it saves nothing and provides easy to access shortcuts for clearing browser history when you're done.
- rplnt 9y agoGoogle promoted it HEAVILY. TV, radio, outdoor, print, (and web of course). Must have been millions of dollars poured into advertising for Chrome. I'm not sure I've seen all that for any software, let alone a free one. Not to mention prominent native ads on such little pages like google.com or youtube.com. And all that wasn't enough since they also shadily (based on user agent for no good reason) blocked features for other browsers in their products.
- floatingatoll 9y agoIf Google had to charge itself actual market prices for the google.com homepage banners promoting Chrome, the costs would be well into a billion dollars per release.
- INTPenis 9y agoYes but weren't they brought up on charges by the EU for monopolization?
- robin_reala 9y agoNot to do with Chrome, the EU charge was around shopping comparisons.
- bzbarsky 9y ago> Must have been millions of dollars poured into advertising for Chrome. For what it's worth, "millions of dollars" is probably understating things by 2-3 orders of magnitude. The ad budget for Chrome was likely comparable to Mozilla's entire budget for a few years there, even if you ignore the free product placement on google.com...