Comments on: Chrome’s Market Share Still Growing

By: Calixte Pictet

Calixte Pictet — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:41:32 +0000

I agree. I use Google Chrome on all desktops except KDE (GNOME Aqua/Mac OS and Windows XP/Vista/7). Plus it’s so badly integrated with KDE that I can’t stand using it with anything that suggests I’m using KDE (Oxygen theme, plasma…)

I don’t have any problem with the flash plugin however, but it _is_ slow.

I agree about the extentions on Chrome, but I believe that the way they’ve been implemented is far superir in the sense that they can’t tamper with Chrome itself (which can also be a bad thing for “power users”)

By: molecule-eye

molecule-eye — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:56:24 +0000

I like Chrome on Windows but it's awful in KDE on linux, at least on my system. The flash plugin causes Xorg cpu usage to spike, the new video content player sometimes break (with the latest dev builds), and it eats through a lot more memory on Firefox, which I need to watch having only 2GB. Also the extension system seems like flexible than Firefox's (just compare their AdBlock and LastPass extensions), and there aren't nearly as many good extensions, but Chrome is catching up on this latter point.

Firefox is, thus, still my favorite browser (on linux).

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:01:26 +0000

Personally I think Chrome is only growing (relative to other browsers) purely because it's relatively new tech. The majority of end-users I know like to try *anything* that's new, and Chrome is no different. Over time the current trend will taper off as something else takes it's place and Chrome loses it's "new toy" attraction. I've also heard a growing number of people express distrust of Google Chrome and suspicion about the privacy of their browsing activity with Chrome.

Chrome has failed to impress me, and I remain a Firm FireFox Fan (plus FF allows me to alliterate wildly with F words).