Comments on: 10 Reasons Firefox won’t be worried about Chrome

By: מוזילה נלחמת בחזרה - My second experiment

מוזילה נלחמת בחזרה - My second experiment — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:33:50 +0000

[...] מביא בלוגר אחד שאני לא בטוח מה הקשר שלו למה, 10 סיבות מדוע כרום לא יגבור על פיירפוקס. Posted: Sep 07 2008, 05:42 PM by tsahi | with no comments Filed under: open source, google [...]

By: skrill

skrill — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:09:51 +0000

In reason #7 You wrote that tabs are the same color, have no favicon or visual differentiation, and there’s not even a way to see the names of tabs when you have too many in a window.

Well I’ve been giving Chrome a real good test run and so far I can see Favicons and when you hover a tab a tip pops up with the tabs title. And as far I’m concerned the newbie users that don’t understand how tabs work in a browser oh well. When you install Firefox it doesn’t place any toolbar buttons for opening new tabs and the only access to tabs is from the file or right click menus. I’ve worked on countless customers systems and 80% of them didn’t even know what tab browsing was and they were blown away by themes.

This is the norm: Hold on you mean to tell me I don’t have to bookmark the previous site to leave and view another. And I can trick out firefox with my fave football team theme.

With some people it just doesn’t click. You know I love using firefox my only complaint is the occasional loss of my bookmarks during an upgrade.

As for Chrome so far I like it’s ability to:

1) Crash only tab in question not entire browser.
2) The tab browsing is on auto pilot.
3) Incognito Browsing (luv that 007 stuff)
4) Single click bookmarking (with no toolbar customize)
5) Sand boxing the tabs (Holding any bad stuff at bay)
6) Recycling of memory when tabs are shut down

Google did go all out but I do agree Chrome will need quite a bit of work to make it a tight browser. I will continue to use Firefox religiously because as Boriss
said it boasts a huge selection of constantly updated extensions “add ons” and I for one use several just for web design, some for SEO and some for personal browsing.

Right now I’m using Chrome for my play browser and Firefox for work. Works out slick since Firefox tends to slow down a bit with add ons installed.

One more thing about Chrome I believe Google did something great because they developed a new browser based on an operating system and made it open source to the world. So you are correct in saying it will pump up the browser competition. They won’t have to spend a gazillion hours developing the core design themselves just snag what Google already created and build on it.

You can read a cool comic strip Google put together here: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html#size=small&page=0

Later

By: God

God — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:05:30 +0000

YEAH. YOU’RE PROBABLY RIGHT. GOOGLE WILL LOSE LIKE THEY ALWAYS DO! THOSE LOSERS

By: Oluniyi Ajao

Oluniyi Ajao — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:59:37 +0000

Thanks for the sound analysis. The octopus called Google wants to dabble their fingers in everything conceivable but for me, Firefox rocks any day, any time.

By: jboriss

jboriss — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:48:28 +0000

albert & dukebody -

While I’m admittedly biased, I don’t mean to imply that Chrome is a bad product. It has plenty going for it, and as Google bears down and works out the kinks it will improve more. Some of the steps they’ve taken are brilliant, and many are steps Mozilla’s thought about taken in the future. Perhaps I should do a followup post about that’s great about Chrome, and what Firefox can learn from it.

By: dukebody

dukebody — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:57:18 +0000

Instead of attacking Chrome’s weak points and being so defensive you should try to learn from the good innovative things Chrome has…

Ok, Mozilla has more extensions, a warmer community, etc. but Chrome already implements features currently only planned in Firefox (reason #9). Btw, how many Firefox users (percent) use extensions?

Don’t worry, time will put everything in it’s place.

By: Hessam Kuhzad

Hessam Kuhzad — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:43:29 +0000

thanks .
the best article after chrome publishing about dear firefox

By: Carl van Tonder

Carl van Tonder — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:11:22 +0000

“10. Chrome is going to have problems releasing on Mac and Linux.”
Particularly because they ship 25 random libraries with it, making it more-or-less un-package-able and unmaintainable.[0]

[0] http://blog.binaryhelix.net/2008/09/google-chrome-houston-we-have-problem.html

By: albert

albert — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:10:41 +0000

Thanks for pointing things out. However your review is overly biased. Give it time. Competition is good. Firefox ain’t going to go anywhere anytime soon. But you underestimate Google’s position and it’s ability to market the product to “regular!” users who aren’t techies or developers or computer geeks. Who don’t know the difference of IE/Firefox. And that base of people is what truly matters. Because in the en they are this vast majority who actually use the software. And here google can do a lot. More people use Google tools than firefox. Don’t forget to that into account.

By: Asa Dotzler

Asa Dotzler — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:16:42 +0000

minor correction: you’re on Planet because you’re a Mozilla contributor. Employment status plays no role in determining inclusion on Planet. That being said, it’s probably impossible to be a Mozilla employee and not also a Mozilla contributor, (/me tries to think of a case…)

- A