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Has the IE haters understood that Chrome is the biggest threat to Firefox and not IE?

IE will still be deployed in Fortune 500 companies for years because Microsoft work closely with them.

Chrome has all I need: speed and addons. All the great addons for developping have been ported.

Why should I use FF?

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FWIW, Here's a graph of usage on Mibbit.com for a year to Jan:

http://mibbit.com/browserShare.png

As you can see, Firefox was pretty flat, and Chrome ate into IE.

Obviously the caveat is that this is for a specific webapp, but I think it mirrors what is happening.

Chrome isn't going after the same crowd as Firefox really. Chrome is going after the masses. Firefox has always been slightly more techy extension installing people.

Interesting pattern there. IE 6 and 7 are collapsing as IE8 grows. I'd interpret that as: Windows users are having to switch anyway - which opens them up to the option of switching away from IE entirely.

Or have it open for them by the European Comission.

I think there's another force at play - everyone knows who Google is, so there is an additional illusion of safety by going with Chrome. Outside of the tech world, not a lot of people know or care about the Mozilla Foundation; there's no implicit guarantee of quality.

Who cares? If browser tech is getting better, we all win. Besides, FF isn't sitting still, they are borrowing Chrome's best features. The beauty of OSS.

You should use FF if you want to use FF, it's personal preference. This video, shown on chrome shorts, explains it better than I can: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5535Ts-iOP0#t=58s

Yes, and those technically-literate enough to have used FF in the past will appreciate Chrome's speed. But those who use IE by default and have never heard of FF or Chrome won't upgrade regardless. As you said, Chrome is mainly a threat to FF and not IE.

Indeed, Firefox uses too much RAM, I'm into my first week of almost entirely Chrome usage.

Please, let's not turn this into a 'share your browser switching story' thread.

The only thing that (still) keeps in FF is Vimperator.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/search?itemlang=&q=...

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