Comment by atoav
3 years ago
No. It is their way of influencing how the web shapes out to be.
Your theory doesn't make any sense since every OS/device comes with a free web browser since I can think.
3 years ago
No. It is their way of influencing how the web shapes out to be.
Your theory doesn't make any sense since every OS/device comes with a free web browser since I can think.
My theory is not just giving people a browser but giving them the best possible experience. Chrome has an enormous market share given every OS and device comes with a free web browser. Further the developer experience using Chrome is also superb!
I am a live long firefox user that also uses chrome. The difference between the two in term of performance is so small and differenciated between various areas, it doesn't even matter.
Usability is a very subjective topic, but for me there are things in firefox or it's addons that I cannot have in chrome.
And in the end I need to trust my browser for daily (non-developer) use. Trusting google is naive. I don't say Mozilla is deserving of unquestioned trust either, but out of the two it is the better choice.
Firefox runs at about half the performance of Chrome for our use case and other people doing similar stuff report similar results. I wish it wasn’t so clear cut.
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Is this an ad ?
Hah, no, Chromes market share is an obvious fact but the developer experience bit is just my opinion and admittedly my use is probably different to the average webdev.
I also think this recent change sucks so it’s not all roses.