Comments on: Google Turns its Back on Firefox

By: 46Bit

46Bit — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:37:29 +0000

Who on earth actually likes Google Toolbar? It’s useless – clunks up & slows down your browser, provides a second search box when unless you’re using an old browser you already have one.

It’s “ad-blocking” is junk as well, useless on most modern sites with pop-up type ads!

By: Google Pack Abstainer

Google Pack Abstainer — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:39:49 +0000

No wonder why I’ve never installed Google Pack. This is all the more ammunition why to stay that way.

By: Daniel newns

Daniel newns — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:03:32 +0000

we all knew it would come after chrome had established itself. i must say i do prefer chrome over firefox especially of late, as my firefox seems to crash more often than windows and thats saying something!!!

By: Hierophant

Hierophant — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:37:43 +0000

@Hierophant: Actually, according to Compete, the Google Pack site gets about 1.5 million unique visitors per month. And I generally find that Compete tends to under count.

Visits do not equal downloads though. I visit the Google Pack site at least once a month but have never downloaded it. Either I have the products in it that I want already (Skype, Adobe Reader, Firefox, Norton) or have found what I consider superior counterparts (MS Office vs. OpenOffice or GoogleDocs and Flickr vs. Picasa). Or the offering just doesn’t fit a need like Google Earth, Google Talk, and Google Screensaver.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:59:45 +0000

I prefer Google Chrome over Firefox by a long shot.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:19:19 +0000

promote chrome

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:52:25 +0000

Don’t care because I love every product Google has ever put out.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:12:15 +0000

Meh. They need to get the Linux people on board.

By: TheLunchBox

TheLunchBox — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:46:00 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if Google is seeing a downturn on ad revenue in the current economy and trying to find ways to boost numbers. Maybe if they have some high profile wins they will see an up turn in AdWords.

By: Josh Catone

Josh Catone — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:01:09 +0000

@Hierophant: Actually, according to Compete, the Google Pack site gets about 1.5 million unique visitors per month. And I generally find that Compete tends to under count. That might be a fairly small number of users in the grand scheme of things, but the point is really more about the trend that seems to be developing at Google. They appear to be beginning to push away open source projects they've supported in the past in favor of promoting their own (not always open source) products. You can make of that what you will, of course.

By: Hierophant

Hierophant — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:27:34 +0000

So this decision affects what 20-30 people who download the Google Pack every year?

By: Tamer

Tamer — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:51:53 +0000

Just A Pace .. it’s still the first version . I tried it . it’s really amazing but still not stable and has many bugs and errors . I think it takes a little bit of time for chrome to be on the surface

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:26:14 +0000

I was expecting this, Josh – too bad we didn’t write some “predictions” when Google came to market with its new browser. It makes sense on the long term, although I think they are a bit rushing to ditch something that helped them spread the toolbar before. We know that Google knows no mercy when its interests are the game. This is not the first example of Google bad behavior. See SearchWiki (doesn’t the name remind you of something else?)

Unfortunately for FF their 3 release is really mediocre and many users, including myself, contemplate switching to something else. I vote for flock. :)

By: mcdanielnc89

mcdanielnc89 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:11:26 +0000

I will not use Google as a default browser. I will stick with Mozilla. I don’t rightfully like the itnerface of chrome

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:45:21 +0000

Google is the new Microsoft. They believe whatever they do is the best thing and won’t consider what other think at all.

By: Tarh

Tarh — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:18:39 +0000

As this is the start of the move toward cloud computing, this truly is a disaster (that wasn’t sarcasm).

By: themightystephen

themightystephen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:02:11 +0000

There was no need for the sarcasm in some of the comments above.

By: SimonPhoto

SimonPhoto — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:49:48 +0000

As long as they keep Chromium as F/OSS, I’m happy with whatever they do.

By: cajebo

cajebo — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:06:24 +0000

Sensationalist headings :-(

While Google might have re-arranged things in the Pack, it’s hardly worthy of such a headline, as long as Google is still a multi-million dollar sponsor of Mozilla Foundation.

Not to mention that there is one, or two– heck, maybe even a dozen or so Mac OS users for which Chrome is but something shiny.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:49:39 +0000

Oh god, outrageous!

By: pippo

pippo — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:48:11 +0000

Let’s discuss this OpenEdge project by Google…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122929270127905065.html

The title as a hint on the topic:

Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web

By: Mr. I

Mr. I — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:43:08 +0000

What next, will we see same interface problems as we see in Opera when using Google Services. I already hate their “biasedness” and have been using alternatives for their services. I use Offline Blog Editor for posting on Blogger, Mail Client for e-mails and so on!

By: inspector

inspector — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:28:49 +0000

It’s all about third-party searches. They don’t want to pay Mozilla the millions it’s been paying for referral searches. It’s all about the Benjamins.

By: raja Sekharan

raja Sekharan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:25:59 +0000

Now who didn’t see that coming?

By: blueclock

blueclock — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:10:12 +0000

I think we’ll start to see the introduction of “Create Document”, “Create Speadsheet” buttons in Chrome very soon.