A disheartening chartfrom Ars Technica , if you ’re a Firefox booster : That gentle down slope indicates Firefox might never reach 25 percent marketshare . Why ? Because companies with money attention about browsers now . Or , in a word : Chrome .
Chrome is the only browser app that gained marketshare from January to February , take a hop .41 percent to 5.61 percent . Even the release of Firefox 3.6 in the last two month did n’t help , with Firefox slide .18 percentage ( 2nd to IE ’s .6 percentage point drop , which you ’d assume would be sending users to alternative internet browser , like Firefox ) .
Here ’s one difference between Firefox and Chrome , in a nutshell : Banners on two of the big , most hope websites on the internet . Chrome ’s by Google . It ’s fast ! It ’s nice ! Switch to it !
But you know what ? It is dissolute and nicer than Firefox . The heyday of Firefox , when it was hands down the best was when nobody with money cared about browsers that worked , that made the internet a better place . So hombre on a shoestring could out - innovate and slaughter the incumbent tyrant . Now companies with resources — Google — can reiterate newfangled versions and feature film just plain faster . Not to cite , advertize the crap out of its web browser .
Part of me really hopes that Firefox does hit 25 percent , just as a emblematical “ fuck you ” to the onetime web internet browser authorities . But the other part me call up Chrome might do it first , even if that ’s a ways aside . [ Ars ]
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