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I doubt it's any coincidence that Chrome surpassed Firefox within months after Google dropped support for the Google Toolbar for Firefox.
It's bigger than that. Google has recently let an agreement lapse that made it the major underwriter of the Mozilla Foundation, the keeper of Firefox. It appears the company intends for Chrome to be its browser of choice going forward.
I use Chrome for google apps... Quick Note, google maps, gmail, calendar, voice, TitanTV and WeatherUnderground. One click of Chrome icon in the taskbar and those are all accessed and opened in the Chrome browser with tabs.
With ONE exception - I use Firefox for all other web access, surfing, buying, video... anything. The one exception being websites that fail to function properly in Firefox, then I use the IExp. That failure can usually be attributed to poorly constructed web apps... that is, coded to work correctly in IExp but not inclusive of Firefox.
I can't believe GOOG would let search go on FF.
Surely, MSFT would pop a lousy $100 million out of the coffee fund to grab that spot and put Bing in as default Firefox search solution....
And from this article we get yet a different set of numbers:
"Chrome's share of the market has gone from 5% to 18%, according to Net Market Share, and Firefox's share has dropped from 25% to 22%."
I'm beginning to think none of these people know what they're talking about.
It's funny to hear about people not trusting Google when other certain large operating system vendors are proven monopolies and proven embrace and extend artists.
Another funny thing that people rarely think about is that our banks know more about us than any search engine. They know where we live exactly, where we shop, our habits, favorite things, favorite restaurants, favorite bars, clubs, what peccadilloes and other odd habits you have. They can place you at certain places and at certain times by the time stamps on your purchases. Most people do not stay logged in to search engines while they search and nor should they. But your bank knows where you are every time you swipe that debit or credit card. Almost no one uses cash anymore.
Privacy is largely dead because of the Internet. People seem fine with it, apparently, because they join all of these social sites which prey more heavily on your privacy than any search engine does -- and they give up this info willingly for the sake of "friends" they will never meet in reality. And it's only becoming worse. Pretty soon everyone will know everything about everyone else.
I've stayed with Firefox and will stay with them for a while longer. I'm not sure that I trust Google.
I don't trust Google - AT ALL. My use of Chrome is a fairly generic activity in my life. I use gmail as a throw away address when surfing and their voice app as a throw away tele number.
My surfing is in Firefox and any email that might encounter legal examination is done in Thunderbird.
But then, my first browser was Mosaic, second was Netscape of pre version 1. At about that time Bill Gates said MicroSoft wasn't interested in the browser app as it didn't really have much use. He later changed his mind.
I've dabbled a bit with Chrome. It runs a lot lighter than FF does and seems a lot less prone to crashing. However, the Omnibox auto-complete seems to work completely at random and there's no way to totally disable it. What's more, Google has flat-out said that they will never offer an option to disable it completely even though it causes many people to want to pull their own hair out.
I also don't like that it doesn't insert italic and bold tags when you hit control-i and control-b respectively like FF does, and its spell-check vocabulary is less complete than FF's, but these aren't dealbreakers.
One more annoyance: no title bar.
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