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Isn't the bigger news here that IE has dropped below 50% market share (dramatically) for the first time in over a decade? It's dominance is kind of over.
sigh - the end users of the application I'm working on use 70%-90% IE depending on the platform. I wish this would change, but I doubt it as IE still is a major player in the enterprise market.
I'm sold on Google Chrome, but it's frustrating that some sites aren't available on Chrome and I'm forced to used Firefox and Safari from time to time. Does that qualify me as a user of all three, thereby inflating the statistics?
What sites aren't available on Google Chrome?
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I'm sold on Google Chrome, but it's frustrating that some sites aren't available on Chrome and I'm forced to used Firefox and Safari from time to time. Does that qualify me as a user of all three, thereby inflating the statistics?
What sites aren't available on Google Chrome?
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The question was what Chrome does differently to Firefox. Firefox had adblocking before Chrome ever existed. IMO Chrome: - Feels faster - Looks a bit better Firefox, on the other hand: - Has better extensions - Has a better URL bar search function I actually use Chrome nowadays. It turns out that the speed and looks of the UI are important enough that I can put up with less polished extensions and a slightly inferior…
* - Has a better URL bar search function * For me, it's the opposite. Chrome's search bar does what I want predictably (run a Google search) where the awesome bar sends me all sorts of crazy places. It's that feature alone that keeps me on chrome.
[1]: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_Tips_:_Location_Bar_Sear...
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It's fast. It's fast. It's fast. Oh, and it pop-up blocks, adblocks, and flashblocks.
The question was what Chrome does differently to Firefox. Firefox had adblocking before Chrome ever existed. IMO Chrome: - Feels faster - Looks a bit better Firefox, on the other hand: - Has better extensions - Has a better URL bar search function I actually use Chrome nowadays. It turns out that the speed and looks of the UI are important enough that I can put up with less polished extensions and a slightly inferior…
I don't understand Google's game here. I thought Mozilla was being showered with cash from Google? If Google is now betting on Chrome, are they going to continue supporting Mozilla? Mozilla is a pretty small-budgeted non-profit and I think they rely heavily on Google's support.
I know a lot of people in the Green Party here in Germany who deliberately use Firefox because they deem it to be the most politically correct browser. My impression is that a lot of them neither realize that Firefox is indeed primarily sponsored by Google (which they consider evil), nor that Chrome/Chromium is open source, just as Firefox. They prefer Firefox for touchy-feely, not technical reasons. So there's a mar…
I don't understand Google's game here. I thought Mozilla was being showered with cash from Google? If Google is now betting on Chrome, are they going to continue supporting Mozilla? Mozilla is a pretty small-budgeted non-profit and I think they rely heavily on Google's support.
My understanding is that the money that Google forks over to Mozilla is simply to keep Google as the browser's default search engine, not to sustain Firefox as a competing browser. If Google ceased that "funding", I'm sure some other search engine would step up to the plate. (Note: I've got no sources for this; just a cursory understanding.)
I'm sold on Google Chrome, but it's frustrating that some sites aren't available on Chrome and I'm forced to used Firefox and Safari from time to time. Does that qualify me as a user of all three, thereby inflating the statistics?
What sites aren't available on Google Chrome?
On a related note, it doesn't look as if there is a good user agent switcher in the Chrome Web Store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search?hl=en-US&q=use...). Does anyone know if the extension API can modify Chrome HTTP headers? Firefox has a pretty good add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-sw...
UPDATE: Upon further inspection, looks like this experimental API does the trick: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/dev/experimental.we...
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* - Has a better URL bar search function * For me, it's the opposite. Chrome's search bar does what I want predictably (run a Google search) where the awesome bar sends me all sorts of crazy places. It's that feature alone that keeps me on chrome.
I guess it depends on what you want to do. The Firefox awesome bar does a better job at guessing what bookmarked or historical site you want. For instance, if I type in "y" or "yc" in Firefox, then it correctly guesses that I probably want "news.ycombinator.com", because it's a site I often visit and one of the very few with "y" or "yc" in the domain name. Chrome, on the other hand, seems to only match from the start…
As of M13 it was made on by default. If I type 'y' I get YouTube, 'yc' a Google search, and 'yco' I get Hacker News.
I don't understand Google's game here. I thought Mozilla was being showered with cash from Google? If Google is now betting on Chrome, are they going to continue supporting Mozilla? Mozilla is a pretty small-budgeted non-profit and I think they rely heavily on Google's support.
The game isn't browsers. Google makes no money from Chrome.
Google makes a ton of money from online ads. For that, it doesn't need to have the top browser. Having a great browser is very useful, but winning the browser war would be self-defeating.
Compare to Microsoft, which also makes no money from IE. But Microsoft actually does want to win the browser war, since marginalizing other browsers is good for Windows (like opposing anything cross-platform is).
Google's game is to make money. Not supporting Mozilla, while Mozilla is useful to it, would be counterproductive. Stopping to support Mozilla would help Chrome's marketshare, but hurt Google's income. I expect Google to continue to do the rational thing here as it always has.