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Google's Chrome will overtake Firefox by 2012
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Google might see its Chrome overtake Mozilla's Firefox to become second most popular web browser by 2012.
Web browser tracking firm Statcounter is claiming that its figures show Google's Chrome overtaking Firefox by the end of the year. According to Statcounter's figures, Chrome's global market share for September was 23.6 per cent while Firefox had 26.8 per cent, with Microsoft's Internet Explorer still in the lead with 41.7 per cent.
Statcounter's figures chart Chrome's astronomical rise in the past two years, while Firefox has stagnated and seen its market share steadily erode. Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been on a downward spiral for years now.
Mozilla has tried to fight back in 2011 with several releases of Firefox. Firefox 4 proved very popular and Mozarella has churned out subsequent versions at a steady clip, much to the annoyance of some enterprise users. The problem for Mozilla is some still believe that Firefox is a sluggish, memory intensive web browser, while they view Chrome as leaner and faster.
Microsoft has been unable to stave off the decline in Internet Explorer's fortunes despite releasing Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) earlier this year. IE9 is a decent effort from Microsoft, but much like Firefox, its poor reputation has helped Chrome to pick up more users.
Microsoft's dominance of the web browser market will be under threat next year. If Google's Chrome does end up on top of the web browser pile, it will highlight who is the current king of the web and signify how far Microsoft has fallen since the turn of the millenium. µ
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Bas: "Google is not evil like Microsoft"
Don't be so sure about that.
:-)
The reason I stick with Firefox as my primary browser isn't just extensions (which are generally better than the Chrome equivalents and there's a lot more of them), it's the ability to massively customise its look and feel.
about:config has a myraid of options (sadly, most of them aren't exposed via the UI) - don't like the ludicrous URL domain "highlighting" (leaving the rest of the URL barely readable as light grey on white)? Just change browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled to false.
Don't like the loss of the http:// prefix in the URL bar? Change browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false. Funny how those two bad "features" were copied from Chrome/Opera/IE and yet at least we can change them back to more sensible settings!
And I haven't even touched on Themes and Personas either - both of which provide a wide range of radical look and feel changes. Having said all that, Firefox 7 is probably the first release since Firefox 3 that I'd say was a noticeable improvement in both speed and memory usage.
It may be that it maybe able to arrest the slide with Firefox 7, but I do think they need to consider a silent updating mechanism to stop the "not another Firefox update" whingers (who dismally fail to realise Chrome updates *3 times more often* and is currently 7 major versions ahead of Firefox!).
Firefox use to be my favorite 4,5,6,7, tanked Chrome is looking better and beater. If chrome puts in a side bar for book marks i might switch.
All Google needs to do now is create a decent extensions API and that'll be the final nail in the coffin for Firefox. Extensions are the only reason I suffer Firefox's memory leaks, goofy Netscape-era profile system, and slow speed. Unfortunately, Chrome lacks extensive customization, and will probably continue to do so in lieu of this stupid "apps" fad.
I forgot, Google is not evil like Microsoft.
Microsoft did FORCE everybody to Internet Exploder by making websites, webservers and websitedevelopment software deliberately incompatible with other browsers then IE and at the same time altering Windows to make other browsers be slow or crash.
They did the same with Wordperfect in Windows 3.x, or altering Windows 3.1 with 1 byte to make it incompatible with OS/2.
Microsoft is one evil company and should never be trusted with anything.
Google, Opera, Firefox and Safari have never done such. As such M$ deserves to die on the browser-market.
Yes I am a fanboy of FF, but just because there is nothing better at the moment.
Ever tried Chrome on Linux? It's not worth talking about.
Chrome is pushed by Google, no problem with that as it's free and platform independent (well allmost).
It may even overtake FF in numbers, but it's just a browser where FF is so much more.
If people don't use FF it's mostly because they don't know about the extra's.
That is not my problem, nor do I care one bit.
Chrome and FF are both free, where IE is not.
People seem to forget that in order to use IE you have/must pay the Microsoft Tax called Windows.
I'm a fanboy of open(source) software and as such M$ is not in my list for favorite software.
Heck I don't even make a problem about OpenOffice or LibreOffice, as long as it's not M$-Office :-)
One of the reasons Chrome is so popular is due to the tactics they use to convince the unsavvy techno users. Open a Google web search page and you're greeted with an annoying do you want to install Chrome button. Many people don't realize, believe it or not, that Chrome is a browser, and of course, during the install it asks if you want to make Chrome your default browser, and people click yes not realizing what they've done. In end, the numbers of Chrome users is not representative of those that actually wanted Chrome. It's just like when Microsoft bundled IE. Because it was installed by default it was counted.
I have been using Firefox for the longest time, hell, I have used it back when it was briefly named 'Firebird' and had also used its spiritual predecessor Mozilla Suite.
That said, I have been using Google Chrome as my default browser sometime since last year. It's fast, it does what it's supposed to do.
However, I still have IE9, Opera 11.5 and Firefox 7 installed on my computer. There's no law against having more than one browser, and so use what you prefer instead of worrying about market share or how a browser measures up to its competition.
Really, there are more important things in life than to pledge undying loyalty to a certain browser or brand.
It's people like you who drive normal people away from Firefox to a nerd-free browser like Chrome.
Most of what you said is just fanboi denial, and it's remarkable how Chrome has somehow managed to avoid any kind of religious following, like other alternative browsers do. The only browser that has never had such a following either, is MSIE, so if Chrome keeps going the way it's headed and doesn't attract a band of crazies, I'm sure it'll match IE's market share before very long.
Yesterday I got an email from MS showing off box shadows in IE10 as though they're something new. They're the last big browser to support them and are still behind in other areas, unlike Chrome, so it's easy to see how Google will make very pretty web apps that don't look as pretty in IE and don't work properly in Firefox or Opera, so Chrome's growth will continue thanks to all the normal office and home users moving to it.
Firefox has such a good share of users and goodies....
Why on earth would Chrome pass that?
On the stupid user part yes, but the users that use a browser to its limits NO.
Chrome is nowhere near FF.
It will not overtake it, not for a long time.
Chrome already is the most popular browser in several countries. For a world map of most popular browser by country check http://www.browserrank.com.
Predictions like this a really pushing the bounds of statistics. You can't just go drawing a straight line with a ruler every time someone reports an up-turn in figures, otherwise you could predict the whole of the UK will be asylum seekers by 2020!
So, a bad time to make a prediction.
On the other hand, Firefox 7 looks, aond is, very much like Firefox 6, 5, and 4, in most other ways.
At least they aren't like Ubuntu changing the colour scheme every time. That must take ages to do.