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Honestly I hope Chrome is the new IE. If it chips away at Safari or Firefox marketshare, that's no win for anyone- those are already damn good browsers. Person
by swannodette 17y ago
Honestly I hope Chrome is the new IE. If it chips away at Safari or Firefox marketshare, that's no win for anyone- those are already damn good browsers.
Personally, thus far, I've yet to see anything in Chrome that would make me jump ship (and I've been trying it for a while). I can do serious development with Firefox and I can have minimalist browsing with Safari.
- pavs 17y agoThe only reason I switched from Firefox because its a memory hog, the longer you use it the slower it gets and eventually crashes - If it was once in a while I could live with that but it happens too frequently. Also installing extensions on Firefox can effect the browser performance, so the more extensions you use more often your browser will crash and slower it will get. Every time there is a extension upgrade you need to go through 2-3 steps and restart browser to install them. With Chrome, I have 23 extensions installed at the moment, it performs as good as having no extension installed. I can't even imagine having 23 extensions on Firefox. All the extensions updates are done on the back ground, install it and forget about it. I had some browser crashes on the early chrome builds but since the last 8 months I didnt have a single browser crash and I am using dev channel. IMO chrome is head over heels better than Firefox (this coming from a former Firefox fan boy) and you need to use it more than 5 minutes to really appreciate it.
- nailer 17y agoGoogle hopes Chrome will be the new explorer.exe (the shell, not the filemanager).
- houseabsolute 17y agoPresumably it's a win for the people who prefer Chrome to the other browsers, yes? Or is your assumption that those people are coerced somehow and that their preferences don't enter into it?