DISQUS

Tom M · 1 year ago

I can see myself sticking with Chrome on my office PC (which is so badly underpowered that the performance difference between Chrome and IE/Firefox is very significant) - but once I've gotten to the point where I'm missing the extensions of Firefox I'll be going right back (at least at home)

I'll be keeping an eye on it though - although on my home PC, the performance differences are not significant, the multi-process approach has benefits... but how long before Firefox and IE catch up on that one?

Paul OFlaherty · 1 year ago

@Tom M: I would suspect that if the approach is as effective as it seams that it may only take a small few releases before the major browsers pic up on it.

Svetlana Gladkova · 1 year ago

Kind of uncomfortable to be quoted here as a tech site with the highest share of Chrome users along with failing to notice Chrome is only used by early adopters now. In fact, I mentioned Chrome would be for the early adopters right in my first review of it and I was totally right. And I was joking with my market share of Chrome on Profy post since I know it is only used by early adopters now and the majority of them arrive to the posts about Chrome itself - tech blogs have published a dozen of posts about Chrome each and they get hundreds of visits to their Chrome-related posts.

Besides, I think all the tech blogs I've seen mentioning their Chrome share actually mentioned the appeal of Chrome to the early adopters.

Paul OFlaherty · 1 year ago

@Svetlana Gladkova: I didn't mean to imply that Profy had not mentioned the appeal of Chrome to early adopters and I'm sorry if the post read that way.

I have updated the post to reflect this and added a note to the post to bring attention to the update.

Henry · 1 year ago

People frequently question Google’s ability to take a product to 1.0, but this project is fundamental to their operations and I have no doubt that this will grow far beyond that. The community at large have speculated, others have predicted for years, that this was on the way.

I suppose that, when asked a couple of years ago, Eric Schmidt was not lying when he said “we are not working on a browser”. Technically, they are just wrapping an existing project and plugging in a new JS VM, right?

Web application developers, rejoice! The browser is multi-process! My site is not your site! It feels like the dawn of a new age in computing, only just like the last one.

Svetlana Gladkova · 1 year ago

@Paul: Thanks a lot for the update, appreciate it. You know, I have started to receive comments on Profy from other bloggers claiming to have over half visitors to their blog from Chrome already. But a quick look shows that their sites are newly-launched blogs about Chrome - and when you write about Chrome, you get lots of Chrome visitors, just logical. I hope people will soon realize that and stop bragging about Chrome market share rapid growth - I'll believe it when I see mainstream users adopt it equally rapidly at the very least.

rummuser · 1 year ago

Why your Grandmother Paul? Even I would not change from FF for the new Chrome. Not yet at least.

Oliver shea · 1 year ago

WOW!! what a post. Really enjoyed reading it. I really don't know about these statistics; according to me Chrome is number one because of its speed and good space offered to its users. :)

Tend & co · 1 year ago

Hello !

I have tried it as well, but I prefer opera & IE, I think I am to used to want a change.

Aftanga · 1 year ago

People frequently question Google’s ability to take a product to 1.0, but this project is fundamental to their operations and I have no doubt that this will grow far beyond that. The community at large have speculated, others have predicted for years, that this was on the way.

Jose · 1 year ago

This is a great article, it demonstrates the impact that early adopters can have in creating traction for a new product at
launch.

On another note, I think I must be the only one who's had a negative experience with Chrome! It's crashed a number of times and I'm experiencing longer than normal loading times on many of the sites I normally visit.

William Gardner · 1 year ago

To be honest, I've stopped using Chrome now apart for some applications that I don't need mozilla plugins for, such as tab mix plus. It's nice having gmail as a Chrome App without any excess browser space being used.

I hope Chrome allow for plugins soon as it really is the best browser under the hood