Image via Wikipedia Googles official announcement about the impending launch of Chrome, their own scratch up browser. Well what does this do to Firefox? The second ranked browser in terms of market share has never had it going so good. A recent record number of downloads for Firefox 3 and the new features have only added to Firefox‘es popularity. Well now with chrome coming out, what does this do with google’s association with FireFox? Google being inherently more popular than the Firefox brand, a download chrome link on their main page may get a whole lot of users trying out their new browser. This will of course impact Firefox and even IE, but then users will really decide that. 5 years down the line, will Firefox and chrome compete? will they merge into one? will Firefox fade like how Netscape did? or will users simply reject chrome? Not every Google product is successful and well that might simply be the answer.
OTOH, if chrome is a really good design and can fit into embedded devices as much as it can into PC’s them well it may well still be a really successful browser.
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September 3, 2008 at 11:11 am
I think Firefox is still better in support and extension, but Google Chrome is still in improving, so with a little effort I think Google Chrome can be in the same class as Firefox… Just wait~~~
September 3, 2008 at 11:30 am
Yeh but all the people still using Internet Explorer are only doing so is because they are the sad majority of pc users who are simply too thick and stupid to download firefox! Considering these people are so stupid I am suprised there arent more people who reply to these african scam emails and fake paypay emails giving them their credit card/paypal account details. I would love to see anyone who honestly prefers Internet Explorer and then I would direct them to the nearist shrink so they can have their head checked.
September 3, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Plenty of people prefer IE Lee. Myself included, a developer of many years experience.
It’s simpler and cleaner out of the box.
Now a days the security issues of the past have long gone.
While web developers hate it, it’s a standard(good or bad) that has to be met since it has such a huge market share.
So as far as the user is concerned it does just work.
I’ve downloaded Chrome and I have to say I’m impressed. It’s brought some of the features I love from Opera, along with a nice interface that Firefox is years away from matching, and instantly works with all my favourite websites. Is it infinitley expandable no probably not, but then I’ve never found a use for all those firefox extensions. IE does everything I need out of the box.
FF is just over marketed and driven by fanboys much of the time is my personal belief.
September 3, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I use FireFox (until very recently) and now I am using Chrome for a lot of things. Here’s a comparison I did between the two: http://blog.gadodia.net/google-chrome-vs-mozilla-firefox/
September 3, 2008 at 1:17 pm
As long as IE is killed and rid of once and for all. Doesn’t matter if Chrome does it or Firefox does. The way I look at it, Chrome/Firefox/Opera/anyone-except-microsoft will support standards the way it should be and give all developers less headache than we have with IE.
September 4, 2008 at 6:42 am
thanks for the comments.
@ vaibhav: Your blog is great..keep up the good work
September 4, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Isn’t Google Chrome just a FireFox mashup? It looks a lot alike…
September 5, 2008 at 1:48 am
Doest it…? Not really i guess, i have been using chrome for some time now and it feels light and its pretty fast at what it does…!