Comments on: Google Chrome could exceed 50% market share by end of 2012 (study)

By: Micke Grönfelt

Micke Grönfelt — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:40:32 +0000

Switched to Chrome when Firefox started to suck and hasn’t looked back since

By: Pingdom

Pingdom — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:40:31 +0000

We’re huge Chrome fans at Pingdom.

By: तर्क-उपयोग उरण

तर्क-उपयोग उरण — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:40:30 +0000

still in love with my Chrome 🙂

By: Victor Ortega

Victor Ortega — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:40:29 +0000

I like this

By: Suneth Kalhara

Suneth Kalhara — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:40:28 +0000

True.. Firefox sucks the processor power and ram…

By: Lennie

Lennie — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:39:21 +0000

@modraideja Actually, Firefox does not use more resources than Chrome. There were some problems with older versions, but in the latest versions it is pretty much solved.

I’ll admit it, I’m a Firefox user. I don’t think I could even use Chrome. The Google company behind it is always on the verge of becoming what they say they won’t be: evil.

By: Koben

Koben — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:21:03 +0000

Firefox sucks. They gotta fix their memory leaks first. I’ve tried several hundred times to keep using Firefox. But, looks like it’s getting over now. I consider to switch to Chrome. SeaMonkey far better than Firefox.

By: modraideja

modraideja — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:04:01 +0000

Totally agree with Oscar. And Firefox uses whole lot more resources than Chrome…

By: Oscar

Oscar — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:52:27 +0000

I used to love Firefox. But is over now.. Chrome is more user friendly, more reliable and is much faster even though I use more plugins then in FF.

By: antrik

antrik — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:48:13 +0000

I don’t think your prediction is very accurate. You seem to be assuming an exponential growth — but while Chrome *did* have a more or less exponential growth at one point, it has “only” seen almost linear growth (of pretty much exactly 1% per month) for more than a year now. So even if it keeps on like this, the 50% point will be much further away: somewhere around November 2013.

(For the much nearer #1 point, the difference shouldn’t show significantly yet — your prediction is probably off only by about a month in this case.)

Having said that, it doesn’t really sound likely that the growth will continue untempered like this till the 50% point. While it’s perfectly possible for this point to be reached ultimately, it seems more probable to be several years away still.

Either way, Chrome is clearly winning big time — and I feel quite ambivalent about this. On one hand, it means a further boost for modern browsers with good support of recent web standards, and patent-unencumbered video codecs in particular. On the other hand, Chrome as shipped by Google is not free software (although most of the code base is); so in a way it’s a return of proprietary browsers — while just a few years ago it seemed inevitable that the free Firefox will become dominant soon (and in fact already did in many regions) 🙁