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"On the ballot screen, consumers initially will be able to choose from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, AOL, Maxthon, K-Meleon, Flock, Avant B

"On the ballot screen, consumers initially will be able to choose from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, AOL, Maxthon, K-Meleon, Flock, Avant Browser, Sleipnir and Slim Browser. The first five, which are the most widely used, will be prominently displayed, and the others will be shown when a user scrolls sideways on the screen." That's quite a list, I don't even recognize some of them. I wonder if we'll have to start testing sites in 11 different browsers (not to mention different versions of each).

camccann 17y ago
Depends, how many of them are just another wrapper around Gecko or WebKit?
rimantas 17y ago
>I wonder if we'll have to start testing sites in 11 different browsers Nope. The number of engines is less than that. IE engine is used by Maxthon, Avant Browser, AOL, Sleipnir and Slim Browser. K-Meleon and Flock use Gecko (FF engine). Safari and Chrome use WebKit. Opera has its own closed-source engine. A couple of listed browser let you choose rendering engine: Maxthon 3 will let you use IE's engine and Webkit; in Sleipnir you have IE's engine and Gecko.
halo 17y ago
I wonder if this will result in more large companies creating browsers. If it takes around 2% marketshare to get on the 'main' list and you can get significant free advertising from it in Europe, perhaps it's worth Yahoo or Amazon creating their own browser, even if it's just a rebranded open-source browser or an IE shell created with minimal investment.
- electromagnetic 17y ago
  I doubt it would work, Chrome's adoption has been phenomenal for its first year and due solely to the techies who adopted it with open arms because they all knew why it was good. Every techie on the planet is going to see through a Firefox or IE shell/clone. It won't get the market share and loyalist fans that Firefox and Chrome gained, so it certainly won't be hitting the top spot like Chrome did within a year of release.

camccann 17y ago

Depends, how many of them are just another wrapper around Gecko or WebKit?

rimantas 17y ago

>I wonder if we'll have to start testing sites in 11 different browsers Nope. The number of engines is less than that. IE engine is used by Maxthon, Avant Browser, AOL, Sleipnir and Slim Browser. K-Meleon and Flock use Gecko (FF engine). Safari and Chrome use WebKit. Opera has its own closed-source engine. A couple of listed browser let you choose rendering engine: Maxthon 3 will let you use IE's engine and Webkit; in Sleipnir you have IE's engine and Gecko.

halo 17y ago

I wonder if this will result in more large companies creating browsers. If it takes around 2% marketshare to get on the 'main' list and you can get significant free advertising from it in Europe, perhaps it's worth Yahoo or Amazon creating their own browser, even if it's just a rebranded open-source browser or an IE shell created with minimal investment.

electromagnetic 17y ago
I doubt it would work, Chrome's adoption has been phenomenal for its first year and due solely to the techies who adopted it with open arms because they all knew why it was good. Every techie on the planet is going to see through a Firefox or IE shell/clone. It won't get the market share and loyalist fans that Firefox and Chrome gained, so it certainly won't be hitting the top spot like Chrome did within a year of release.