On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Nikos Roussos <comzeradd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>A few reasons, in my own personally believed order of popularity for >>Chrome: >> >>1. Media "just works". Netflix, amazon video/music, spotify, etc. > > Netflix "just works" on Firefox too (due to EME support). Spotify is flash. If you install flash-plugin it works on Firefox too. Having to install flash is a terrible thing these days. Also, Firefox as shipped in Fedora out-of-the-box doesn't work for this because Fedora out-of-the-box doesn't have the codecs. Chrome bundles them, so end users that don't care get them and "it works". (I realize Chrome has flash built-in in some form, but at least it isn't separate.) >>2. Per process tabs mean one tab crashing doesn't take down the whole >>browser > > That's already the case with Firefox too. It's just not yet enabled by default on the stable version. > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis So for 90% of browser users, it isn't the case yet. >>3. Tight integration into the Google ecosystem. > > That's true. But that's an anti-feature. I don't think it's a nice user experience to distribute them a browser that tries to force them to create a Google account (that's Chrome's default first tab). Depends on what the user is looking for. >>4. For a while, it was much faster than Firefox for typical javascript >>heavy sites, etc. I believe Firefox has caught up for the most part. > > That's old news. At the moment even Edge is probably faster than Chrome. I said that. Look, the original poster asked why Chrome/chromium were popular. These are some of the reasons why. It wasn't a comparison to Firefox or any other browser. I'm also not defending Chrome or any other browser for that matter. josh -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
