Is Chrome taking share from Firefox?

[maurycy]

I wish Mozilla folks woke up.

I'm on Mac and, to be honest, once you get used to Chrome, Firefox is completely unusable. It is slow, cluttered interface, w/o any major advantages over other browsers.

I use Chrome on daily basis and it is pleasure to browse the web. Folks, do not underestimate speed. It is one of the most important UI features.

[pohl]

It might be useful for the FF team to put their tools down for a while and just use Chrome (and/or Safari). Then, upon returning to FF, they might see more clearly what needs to be done to make FF better. Eating your own dogfood is good, but so is thorough study of the competition.

[TNO]

I wish people paid more attention to developments.

#1: Direct2D is in Fx nightlies: http://www.tapper-ware.net/files/stresstest.comparison.ogg

#2: Jaeger Monkey: http://www.bailopan.net/blog/?p=683

#3: 64bit builds are builds are planned for 4.0 if not sooner

#4 multi-processes: http://blog.mozilla.com/cjones/2009/06/21/multi-process-fire...

[varaon]

Ironically, Flash is the main reason I'm using Chrome. Firefox is plenty fast, but tab isolation means that my browser crashes less often.

[rsheridan6]

I doubt the Mozilla folks can do much about it. It's, like, 7 billion line of C++. How nimble can they be about turning that into a lean, mean, browsing machine? If they haven't done it in 10 years, they probably can't.

[ErrantX]

Not unexpected; for a lot of us Chrome was a refreshing reboot of the browser after Firefox became a little on the bloated side.

Incidentally I suspect Firefox has gotten as high a market share as any browser other than IE will ever get.

I fully suspect that over time IE's share (the high %age of which is mostly down to the "monopoly" aspect) will continue to be eroded to level off in the 30-40 range whilst other browsers, rather than just one, will fill the gap.

Also; is the increased safari explained by iPhone usage? are they counting Mobile safari in the overall Safari stats?

[jim-greer]

On Kongregate at least the Safari growth is from the Mac, not iPhone.

And Chrome has taken share from both IE and Firefox on our site, but mostly from IE.

Safari Mac - 6.4%, up from 3.8% a year ago

Safari Win - 0.9%, up from 0.5%

Mac - 9.3%, up from 6.6%

iPhone - 0.4%, up from 0.3%

[mawhidby]

I still use Firefox for my web development because I like Firebug much better than Web Inspector, but that's about it.

I use Chrome for everything else, and love it even more now that it supports extensions. My favorite thing about Chrome is the fusion of the search/address bar - you can just fire up a new tab and enter your search, rather than open tab, tab over to search, enter search.

[ErrantX]

It was a smart move adding that to chrome; I am completely unable to function in another browser now because of it.

Especially the auto-complete - type 2 letters and hit enter... :)

[cmgarcia]

Same here. I use Firefox for development with Firebug at work, but I use Chrome at home.

[ryandvm]

Makes sense. If you haven't decided to upgrade from IE to Firefox, you sure as hell aren't going to be finding Chrome on your own.

[hannibalhorn]

Well, a lot of EU citizens have over the past few weeks. It'll be interesting to see where each browser's market share winds up in a couple months.

[MikeCapone]

I moved from Safari to Chrome. But before that, I moved from Firefox to Safari because FF is too bloated and slow on the Mac.

[fierarul]

Still waiting for a proper AdBlock on Chrome/Mac (ie. one that doesn't just hide the ads) and I'll switch.

"GWT developer plugin" for Chrome/Mac would also be nice although it's not that essential.

[ZeroGravitas]

Does anyone else have issues with text-selection being finnicky in Chrome, or is just my install (on Ubuntu 9.04)?