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> But from a product point of view, Firefox lost its "killer app". For most of (former/present) Firefox users extensibility wasn't the "killer app". FF gained
by The_Colonel 6y ago
> But from a product point of view, Firefox lost its "killer app".
For most of (former/present) Firefox users extensibility wasn't the "killer app".
FF gained its marketshare at the time because IE was so crappy on most metrics and that was the main competition.
- anoncake 6y agoNot being IE doesn't help much when the competition is Chrome.
- The_Colonel 6y agoYes, chrome was for a long time simply better browser (mostly because it was much faster/responsive). But as the article explains, this was largely caused by the need to provide extensive backwards compatibility which stifled innovation or completely prevented it (in case of multi-process architecture).
- nextaccountic 6y ago> FF gained its marketshare at the time because IE was so crappy on most metrics and that was the main competition. But whoever kept Firefox after Chrome gained popularity probably do so because of the extensions.