Comments on: Early Stats: Google Chrome Hurts Firefox, not IE

By: rolf

rolf — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:02:03 +0000

I guess theyre trying to repeat their gmail success, except that this time theres already another competitor… firefox.
I think theyre targeting teenagers and young users, those dont know what threaded tabs are, but theyll think that its a great/cool thing (basically thats how apple marketing works).
I am still sticking to firefox, but I think chrome will take off… The targeted users dont care about addons and dont check browser memory usage like me.

By: akshay

akshay — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:29:06 +0000

I installed google chrome yesterday and it is very fast than the other browsers. Actually last night I was looking for poker betting sites (for writing an article on casino, iam aspiring writer) and book mark them in internet explorer. But when i installed chrome, same bookmarks can be seen there as well at the right side of the page. I don't know how to deleate them, i didn't found any option. How can i ?

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:07:32 +0000

@madr: Yes, you are probably expected to use Google Reader. However, Chrome seems to be hyped up as a web app window more than a browser. That’s what they’re going for: Instead of the (very crappy) Chrome bookmarks, use Google Bookmarks, instead of an RSS reader, use Google Reader. Chrome seems to be trying to wean people off of running things on their own machine and keeping them instead on the interwebs. This has plenty of advantages, and plenty of disadvantages. I like it because setting up Google apps in Firefox means I can keep everything synced between both browsers and all computers, but at the same time I wish it was integrated into Chrome a little bit more.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:00:09 +0000

I think the reason is this:
Most users who use IE just use it because it’s the default. Chrome is clearly better than IE, but so was Firefox. If they didn’t switch to Firefox from IE, they’re *not* going to switch to Chrome. It’s as simple as that. IE just won’t lose market share.

Firefox, however, is used by people who already wanted to replace IE, for various reasons. Chrome is (in my opinion) better than Firefox in some respects, and worse in others. However, it stands to reason some people who had switched to Firefox because it was better than IE will switch again to Chrome because, when all said and done, some people believe it’s better than Firefox.

Summary: IE users are only IE users because it’s with Windows, while Firefox users went out to get it. Chrome will only really replace Firefox users. Get it?

By: Rem

Rem — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:20:55 +0000

What i think is.. either IE users are people who dont know that a different alternative exists or are too lazy to get a new one. so in he numbes on IE wont change.. it’ll remain un-chromed.

the immature javascript behaviour of chrome will only cause problems for us developers.. i hope chrome wont hit it until it renders pages like FF or better. cheers!!

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:57:28 +0000

Chrome is an excellent browser right off the bat, even with this first beta release. Very fast, very simple and well thought out. In the long run, I do not see it taking shares off of Firefox however, but off of IE. The FF crowd likes the customization power of FF. The mainstream crowd couldn’t care less for add-ons (if anything IE has taught them it’s that add-on toolbars are bad: occupy space for nothing, slow down everything etc), but they have several ingredients in favor for Chrome: simplicity, speed, and a great brand is offering it. Furthermore, if the Android takes off, installing Chrome on the PC for Android owners will be a natural thing to do.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:14:21 +0000

While FF is the better browser (firebug alone does this), A massive percent of web users are not techy. They simply do not know or care about “better” browsers.

Most members of my family think internet explorer is the internet, its a csae of “I want to go online so i click the internet button”.

I agree Google chrome is fast and a very good browser, but I for one an not entirly happy with google knowing “everything” about me. (google is skynet).

What the web needs is a firefox plugin that allows you to render the site in any browser (such as the dog ie6) yet still use add-ons (firebug) on the page. For me this would be debug heaven.

Although the web is changing (for the better), we still have to accommodate below par browsers for many years to come.

Nick

By: Milo

Milo — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:02:46 +0000

That was already obvious out of the gate.

Users of IE are loyal to IE otherwise they should have transferred to Firefox long ago. Users of Firefox on the other side are most likely prior users of IE who just switched to Firefox and these people would most likely try out another browser if it felt good enough.

IE users have the loyal mentality or the lockdown to IE status especially if they are in the enterprise, pre-installed, home computers, etc.

Milo
Techticles.com

By: scruffy

scruffy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:56:00 +0000

There is no Linux version yet so I can’t try it. Then again, I wouldn’t trust Google with all of the other data they collect on people. If I did download it then it would only be to try it, and any copy I keep will not be my main browser – that is Firefox – but only for testing out my websites.

By: Freek Lijten

Freek Lijten — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:23:24 +0000

Kind of makes sense doesn’t it. People using Firefox are more often the not the ‘progressive’ internet users. My father will never use anything else then IE which – the thought alone of using a browser to download another will be very weird to him – not a problem at all, but he surely won’t use Chrome as well. I’m guessing this goes for a lot of IE users. They use it because it is on there computer anyway and a) haven’t heard of other browsers or b) can’t be bothered. Firefox users once wen’t away from using a browser because another browser promised to be more fun / profit (time) / usable / something else, so chances are they will do this again.