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What an odd headline. I guess "Chrome Finally Gets 50% Of What Firefox Has" doesn't make Chrome look good enough. The stats show that Firefox still has about 20

by bonch 16y ago

What an odd headline. I guess "Chrome Finally Gets 50% Of What Firefox Has" doesn't make Chrome look good enough. The stats show that Firefox still has about 20% share, while Chrome only has about 10%. While there is a downward trend for Firefox right now, that's also attributable to Firefox 4 not being available yet. This headline seems like the author's conclusion getting pushed on the reader. There's no telling whether or not Chrome will capture Firefox at all, because anything can happen in the future. Perhaps Firefox 4 will be great; perhaps Chrome marketshare will flatten out; perhaps IE9 will be a huge success that draws users from all the other browsers.

thezilch 16y ago
I think it is a good conclusion. I certainly will be pushing all friends, family, and otherwise towards Chrome. There's no sign their model will go awry -- they are already ahead, in my eyes. There are just too many great features, for grandma AND developers, that I can't pass up the simplicity of a single platform. There's absolutely no reason my non-technical consults should have to bother with upgrading their browser, hacking their extensions, and dealing with performance issues. Chrome's ecosystem is headed in the right direction, and it is owning up to a lot of its faults and addressing said faults in droves. There's a lot to be said for Chrome's _rate_ of success, when predicting the future. Firefox 3.5 and 3.6, both fairly significant releases, barely touch the charts, with respect to Chrome. FF 4.0 is going to be great, so I don't expect many to leave the platform, and I think it's fair to expect Chrome to be its equal. IE9 is also shaping up to be a good platform -- better than 7 or 8 hoped to be. It too will probably capture a lion's share of its zealots and the Windows platform, but there is no reasonable justification for the tech savvy to continue pushing others onto more stable and paced browsers. IE team still need a bigger fire under their seats, and we'll hopefully see a worthy opponent for a three-pronged, browser shootout.
r00fus 16y ago
On a newer computer (ie MBP 2010), Chrome and Firefox are pretty evenly matched in terms of usable speed in my experience. However, on older machines (ie, my parent's 7 yo laptop), Chrome makes an otherwise unusable machine into a halfway decent browsing experience. I'm not sure how this impacts future marketshare, but it probably explains why me and my wife both equally use Safari/FF, but my parents use Chrome (and only on the older machines).

by bonch 16y ago

thezilch 16y ago

I think it is a good conclusion. I certainly will be pushing all friends, family, and otherwise towards Chrome. There's no sign their model will go awry -- they are already ahead, in my eyes. There are just too many great features, for grandma AND developers, that I can't pass up the simplicity of a single platform. There's absolutely no reason my non-technical consults should have to bother with upgrading their browser, hacking their extensions, and dealing with performance issues. Chrome's ecosystem is headed in the right direction, and it is owning up to a lot of its faults and addressing said faults in droves. There's a lot to be said for Chrome's _rate_ of success, when predicting the future. Firefox 3.5 and 3.6, both fairly significant releases, barely touch the charts, with respect to Chrome. FF 4.0 is going to be great, so I don't expect many to leave the platform, and I think it's fair to expect Chrome to be its equal. IE9 is also shaping up to be a good platform -- better than 7 or 8 hoped to be. It too will probably capture a lion's share of its zealots and the Windows platform, but there is no reasonable justification for the tech savvy to continue pushing others onto more stable and paced browsers. IE team still need a bigger fire under their seats, and we'll hopefully see a worthy opponent for a three-pronged, browser shootout.

r00fus 16y ago

On a newer computer (ie MBP 2010), Chrome and Firefox are pretty evenly matched in terms of usable speed in my experience. However, on older machines (ie, my parent's 7 yo laptop), Chrome makes an otherwise unusable machine into a halfway decent browsing experience. I'm not sure how this impacts future marketshare, but it probably explains why me and my wife both equally use Safari/FF, but my parents use Chrome (and only on the older machines).