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> I agree, and Chrome did that in one simple way: marketing and monopoly power. When Chrome came out, it was much faster than Firefox. IIRC, it was also an ev

> I agree, and Chrome did that in one simple way: marketing and monopoly power. When Chrome came out, it was much faster than Firefox. IIRC, it was also an evergreen browser from the start and you could install plugins without restarting. It was in many ways a superior product.

webwanderings 8y ago
You would have been down voted to hell for saying this here when Chrome came out. But I bet you know this already. Google did to Firefox what it did to Yahoo, Altavista, Excite etc. When you can sell ‘6 minutes Abs’ who would buy ‘7 minutes Abs’? Chrome was faster when it came out. I was on Win7 back in the days and I was being down voted. The proof is in the pudding.
toyg 8y ago
That is not my recollection. When Chrome debuted, some people had bazillion of FF extensions that were bogging it down, installed an extension-free Chrome, and went "much speed so wow". Later Google started pushing JS performance. It doesn't matter that much anyway - Google didn't make the difference by converting FF users, but by being better than Mozilla at pushing IE users to switch. Which, again, was not a technical issue at all. I would bet that 90% of those users never even tried FF. A lot of them installed Chrome on Windows so they could synchronize settings from their main device, i.e. an Android phone.
- tapoxi 8y ago
  V8 and multiprocess were a huge part of the original announcement comic: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ At the time I remember this was a huge performance gain on my machine with my workflow (dozens of tabs), since you could easily open up the Chrome Task Manager and see which tab was causing problems. It was also the first browser to make updates invisible, so I installed it on every family member's PC.

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> I agree, and Chrome did that in one simple way: marketing and monopoly power. When Chrome came out, it was much faster than Firefox. IIRC, it was also an ev

by jcbrand 8y ago

webwanderings 8y ago
You would have been down voted to hell for saying this here when Chrome came out. But I bet you know this already. Google did to Firefox what it did to Yahoo, Altavista, Excite etc. When you can sell ‘6 minutes Abs’ who would buy ‘7 minutes Abs’? Chrome was faster when it came out. I was on Win7 back in the days and I was being down voted. The proof is in the pudding.
toyg 8y ago
That is not my recollection. When Chrome debuted, some people had bazillion of FF extensions that were bogging it down, installed an extension-free Chrome, and went "much speed so wow". Later Google started pushing JS performance. It doesn't matter that much anyway - Google didn't make the difference by converting FF users, but by being better than Mozilla at pushing IE users to switch. Which, again, was not a technical issue at all. I would bet that 90% of those users never even tried FF. A lot of them installed Chrome on Windows so they could synchronize settings from their main device, i.e. an Android phone.
- tapoxi 8y ago
  V8 and multiprocess were a huge part of the original announcement comic: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ At the time I remember this was a huge performance gain on my machine with my workflow (dozens of tabs), since you could easily open up the Chrome Task Manager and see which tab was causing problems. It was also the first browser to make updates invisible, so I installed it on every family member's PC.