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I was mostly talking about the desktop, other people already commented on the 'forced' Webkit market share on mobile devices. Firefox around me: From technical
by darklajid 13y ago
I was mostly talking about the desktop, other people already commented on the 'forced' Webkit market share on mobile devices.
Firefox around me: From technical people to guys that use mostly Excel, everyone here uses FF (apart from the IE10+ guys at work). Heck, I learned about some of these strange 'take FF, compile it for amd64 and call it "optimized"' FF derived browsers through people that .. are average not-into-computers-really joes.
The only people that DO install Chrome around here (I know, I know, nothing but anecdotes to back this) are elderly family members that click that annoying huge 'You should really download our browser, it's teh best thing ever' button on Google - and get back to launch IE again the next day, because they didn't understand the whole thing, really.
I don't want to take Chrome away from anyone, I just dislike the 'Meh, FF OS is useless anyway, their browser is becoming obsolete and they just meddle with politics' dismissal in the original comment. A 'desperate effort to become relevant again'? Why (and in what world) would they be irrelevant in the first place?
- criley2 13y agoAnecdote: Literally no one in my office uses Firefox except when we need to copy paste a numbered list from a wikipage, and for some reason Firefox copy paste retains the numbering where nothing else does. Everyone uses Chrome here, and we're not a fancy new tech company or anything, we're a pretty conservative shop that's been around twice as long as many HNers have been alive.