SillyDog701

[Antony]

According to Cnet News.com report and NetApplication data, Chrome has 16.2% in September, Safari has 5.0% while Firefox maintained 22.5%.

Browsers play a very important supporting role in Google's business, and the company has been investing aggressively in Chrome technology and marketing. The browser is geared to improve online services such as search, video, and Google Apps, all of which generate revenue for the company.

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Chrome has an advantage for Google over Mozilla's Firefox: searches from Chrome are performed directly with Google technology. That means that Google doesn't have to split the revenue with partners such as Mozilla or Ask.com that drive search traffic. With such deals, the search-ad revenue Google pays partners is called traffic acquisition costs, or TAC.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1

[James]

This doesn't surprise me in the least (although being an old Netscape fan, I'm saddened by it). We've watched Chrome steadily improve to where it is today and we know it will only get better. It's lean and incredibly fast and that is what "most" (not all) people want today.

I no longer understand Mozilla... period. You have two branches of Firefox (why?). You have a suite and two standalone products (why?). Mozilla seems to me to be a rudderless ship sputtering about without direction. Chrome and the accompanying gmail will undoubtedly surpass Firefox/Thunderbird unless some drastic changes are made to the direction of these products.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1

[Antony]

Mozilla was more of the continuation of Netscape back in the early days. It seems to me that it has been a browser choice of open source software demanded invidivials. Over time, it's tinted with strong extremist feeling.

Google Chrome is also open source, but it does not enjoy the same love as Mozilla from open source community. I guess it's because Apple has not been loved by the said community. (e.g. Don hates anything associated with Apple.) It's very religious to me.

I have both Firefox and Camino installed so I can have two different sets of bookmarks.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_5 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8L1 Safari/6533.18.5