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Yes, and no. Firefox is actually bigger than it used to be when Chrome launched. It was at around 20-24% back then. But yes, Chrome did steal market share from
by nextparadigms 15y ago
Yes, and no. Firefox is actually bigger than it used to be when Chrome launched. It was at around 20-24% back then. But yes, Chrome did steal market share from Firefox. I think by now it got most of the early adopters and devs from Firefox.
But in the same time they both kept eroding IE's market share, so overall Firefox grew by getting some IE users, and losing a few to Chrome, while Chrome grew from both IE and Firefox.
I think it's a pretty win-win situation for both, at least for now. Together they are big enough to standardize some features, even without Microsoft's support (like say WebM, WebGL, or Native Client). So, I think that's good.
On a side note, I think something like 40-50% of Techcrunch readers are using Chrome, and that's a pretty good indication to where Chrome is going, just like it used to be for Firefox, when it had only 10-15% overall marketshare, but around 25-30% on tech sites. And now has caught up to that.
- experimental 15y agoTechCrunch isn't really a good indication of browser market share, the type of user is more likely to use Chrome (usually sticks with the defaults even if they use extensions). Also I'm not sure early adopters is a good description, Firefox users are more likely to care about usability, security, privacy, extensions that aren't possible with Chrome or that Google considers not important or don't want it (something like NoScript or RefControl) and open source (which Chrome is not, sure Chromium is but the distinction is important because of real world implications and other reasons). These things do tend to be more important for some early adopters, I'm not sure I'd grant "technical proficiency" to mere "tech enthusiast".