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They are being very stupid. Switching primary browser isn't trivial, but it's easier than wading through an ad-laden web. Goodbye Chrome, hello Firefox.

NieDzejkob 7y ago
You're not their target. It's the less technical people they have in mind here.
- JulianMorrison 7y ago
  Those people managed to switch from IE. Chrome used to be the underdog.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  Fortunately, a lot of less technical people have technical people in their immediate families and circles of friends.
  - breakingcups 7y ago
    The big question is, how many of those less technical people switched to Chrome because of technical friends or family and how many switched because of Google abusing its monopoly by displaying deceptive ads for their browser on all web real estate they own?
    - JulianMorrison 7y ago
      Ads don't make people switch browser, it's enough of a fuss that only pain will do that.
- jve 7y ago
  Except we are the ones that usually decide what to put on end users computers. And we are the ones that makes suggestions. And end users then make same suggestions to other people. Word of mouth I believe is a VERY important marketing tool. Basically if Chrome looses people that brought them market share in the first place... I think market can shift. Not that it happens fast enough. But having some market share for Firefox is important.
JohnFen 7y ago
> Switching primary browser isn't trivial It isn't? It seems trivial to me -- what are the friction points?
- JulianMorrison 7y ago
  If you're not technical, switching browser means losing your entire navigation map of bookmarks and default start page, along with learning a different program's ways of doing the same things. If you are technical, it's still a pain to get everything imported and set back up, and the extensions you're used to may be absent or done in different ways, and the subtleties of eg: incognito mode and reader mode may be different. You may have to re-construct your personal adblock rules. And so on.

NieDzejkob 7y ago

You're not their target. It's the less technical people they have in mind here.

JulianMorrison 7y ago
Those people managed to switch from IE. Chrome used to be the underdog.
TeMPOraL 7y ago
Fortunately, a lot of less technical people have technical people in their immediate families and circles of friends.
- breakingcups 7y ago
  The big question is, how many of those less technical people switched to Chrome because of technical friends or family and how many switched because of Google abusing its monopoly by displaying deceptive ads for their browser on all web real estate they own?
  - JulianMorrison 7y ago
    Ads don't make people switch browser, it's enough of a fuss that only pain will do that.
jve 7y ago
Except we are the ones that usually decide what to put on end users computers. And we are the ones that makes suggestions. And end users then make same suggestions to other people. Word of mouth I believe is a VERY important marketing tool. Basically if Chrome looses people that brought them market share in the first place... I think market can shift. Not that it happens fast enough. But having some market share for Firefox is important.

JohnFen 7y ago

> Switching primary browser isn't trivial It isn't? It seems trivial to me -- what are the friction points?

JulianMorrison 7y ago
If you're not technical, switching browser means losing your entire navigation map of bookmarks and default start page, along with learning a different program's ways of doing the same things. If you are technical, it's still a pain to get everything imported and set back up, and the extensions you're used to may be absent or done in different ways, and the subtleties of eg: incognito mode and reader mode may be different. You may have to re-construct your personal adblock rules. And so on.