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I see with my parents and their peer group I've been supporting for years why the numbers for market share may also be misleading. I installed Firefox on all o
by aluhut 13y ago
I see with my parents and their peer group I've been supporting for years why the numbers for market share may also be misleading.
I installed Firefox on all of their computers, taking favorites from IE. They all use Chrome today. You know why? They don't know. It was just there. Suddenly. Already set as preferred browser application. Every time I come by, I uninstall it. Every time I come back, it's there again. Installed with some regular update. (If someone has an idea how I could prevent it being installed at all, I would be very thankful)
After testing it for some months I saw absolutely no reason to switch. After some more months now, I see is as an annoying piece of crapware I started to hate.
So even if it may lead in marked share, it doesn't mean that people likes or wants it..
I see the style and feature growth within FF as a problem. I liked the old school application I could modify with stuff I need. Less is more. Today I have the feeling using a tool that has features I'll never find or use at all with a look I don't like and need to style-down. But still: I can style it down. It has all the Add-Ons I need and it works more stable and less resource hungry then Chrome. If anything happens, there is ONE process. I kill it, restart, works again.
I stay where I am.
Thanks for the great job!
- bronxbomber92 13y agoI really have no idea what point this post is trying to make. I see anti IE (installing FF over IE), anti Chrome ("crapware") and anti FF ("feature growth within FF) sentiments, but no tie-together logic. Do you have a conclusive point you're trying to get across?
- bzbarsky 13y agoI think aluhut's point is that at various points in time Chrome has come bundled with various other software on Windows, often enough as an opt-out install, not an opt-in. Needless to say, Google has spent a fair amount of money on those sorts of deals. This is an effective, if sleazy, way of gaining market share.