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I for one never thought Google Chrome would win the "browser wars". I used Opera and Firefox regularly and I was very much satisfied with them. But I have to ad
by dm8 14y ago
I for one never thought Google Chrome would win the "browser wars". I used Opera and Firefox regularly and I was very much satisfied with them. But I have to admit Google Chrome team has outstanding job and Chrome is my primary browser.
Any idea how many people working on Chrome team? And why Mozilla remained so indifferent speed when Chrome was beating big time?
- mike-cardwell 14y agoGoogle Chrome has been so successfully primarily because they plaster a big advert for it on the front page of google.com if you're using something else. Don't get me wrong, it's a decent browser, but I bet they wouldn't have a tenth the number of users if they didn't exploit their unparalleled advertising power of the front page of google.com.
- kevingadd 14y agoIndifferent seems an inaccurate way to describe it. A project as big as Firefox isn't exactly going to be fast to change course when a large number of the contributors work for free instead of being told what to do by the person who signs their paychecks.
- Ygg2 14y agoTo paraphrase a police chief fro The Wire: "You can't turn your ship on a dime". Sames goes for any large endeavor. When Chrome came out it's focus on speed/usability was new to the browser landscape. It took some times but FF is catching up in almost all aspects of it (speed is up, memory usage has been reduced). For me FF always was unbeatable for its slew of plugins. The plugins and their intergration can't be matched by Chrome.