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Ask HN: Why is evryone making Chrome extensions without a Firfox counterpart?
Is it a lot easier to develop for Chrome?
The last I checked, the market shares are basically equivalent, but maybe Chrome users are more likely to download extensions?
I see this as a problem for Firefox in the future, and if they have a plan to curb this trend.
- kyllo 12y agoBecause NaCl. It's basically Google's version of ActiveX, not supported by other browsers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client
- bananaoomarang 12y agoI wouldn't say NaCl is the main reason. Devs just develop for chrome because they use chrome themselves...
- chc 12y agoMost likely because they're scratching an itch and don't happen to use Firefox. This is similar to why a lot of projects on Github don't support Windows despite the market share of Windows being much bigger than that of both Linux and OS X put together. Among the demographic Joe Randomdeveloper cares about — himself — Chrome on OS X has 100% market share.
- itengelhardt 12y agoI think the major reason is that the marketshare has changed. Chrome is now at about 2x the marketshare of Firefox. Source: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Summary_table http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum... 2. a German computer magazine called "c't" - latest edition