Do you think Firefox is losing market share to Chrome?

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It seems like the market share of Firefox has stopped expanding and reached sort of a plateau. Meanwhile Chrome is climbing at about 1% a month. What do you think of this?

never bothered using chrome sincei t adds some stuff I dont want, so really, it doesnt concern me even though i use firefox

No Firefox has been climbing against internet exploder.

You can track it here. http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php

Chrome is great for non technical users who are unaware of the privacy issues with this browser. I will be staying with Firefox which never failed me.

Since I moved up to Windows 7, I have noticed an intermittent but frequent problem with Firefox. When I click on a tab or try to start a new tab (without even having a ridiculous number of tabs open), Firefox will frequently freeze and then split into two separate windows. I don't remember that happening on XP or Vista.

I use chrome but then I actually *hate* firefox. I think it's an aesthetic thing but I just can't stand it. I'd use IE over firefox any day.

Well, I think Google is getting too big like Microsoft.
I won't say Google seems anywhere near as careless
as Microsoft is about putting greed way above
customer needs preferences and legal rights,
but I wouldn't put all the eggs in one basket with them.

Chrome is too connected with Google just like IE is too connected with Windows.
I may use any browser, but cautious about those two.

Microsoft is expensive in terms of money, while
Google is a trade of information as currency, especially personal information,
and information is more useful and powerful than money.

Remember, Google Earth is fun because you can peek at anywhere,
but it was made by scanning the whole planet, and Google controls
all of the popular social networks, and makes big money by selling personal
information you give them to big businesses, which is how they can
provide valuable and high tech information services to you for free.
They play nicer than Microsoft, but they are not truly free like GNU/Linux is.

Google is changing Youtube from Flash to HTML5, and trust may swing on
whether the implementation includes the absolutely legally FREE Ogg Theora
video codec (which it seems they are going to) in addition to the H.264
HDTV format. All Flash since version 7 was spyware, some capable of
turning on microphones and webcams and accessing hard drives, and
feeding it to s.ytimg.com which is within ytimg.com domain registered to Google.

Anyway, people should not cheer their computers or OS or browsers or
anything else the way that they cheer their home sports team (win or lose,
good or bad, they get paid millions more than their fans). To protect your
freedom you must respect others freedom to choose their own products
as well. I THINK THAT THE VARIOUS BROWSERS WILL CONTINUE TO
COMPETE, otherwise the Winner will own you. Now that videotape is
obsolete, you don't have a choice of television video, you only have DVD,
and it is NOT THE SKIP FAST FORWARD BUTTON ON ]YOUR REMOTE
CONTROL THAT CONTROLS THE ADS ON THE DVD YOU BOUGHT. I don't
know about Blue Ray (and have doubts) but Some DVRs are more user
friendly than others in regard to disobeying your control of them. Linux
is the only popular OS that cannot yet be highjacked so absolutely invasively,
because unlike DMCA protected Proprietary Software, Linux is legally free,
often "as in free speech (use as you like) and as in free beer (no cost to use)".

According to the law, MSFT is (or recently still was) in violation of antitrust
for trying to kill the browser market by including their IE in Windows. That
is another reason that Google probably won't own the Web with Chrome,
if the law means anything at all anymore.

Let all browsers continue to compete for our freedom to choose them.

I'm a big fan of Chrome. I've used it since it was originally released. I have heard of the so-called 'privacy' issues with the browser, and think that these issues employ an extraordinarily broad definition of privacy. I think that some people just want to complain, and particularly about large companies like Google and Microsoft. In my opinion it's a far superior product to Opera and Internet Explorer, and as good as Firefox (although each caters to different needs).

Please humor me and explain how "privacy" can have a "broad definition".

Privacy is your soul.

If you don't want it, post your name and address and email and phone number and
bank accounts and passwords online, and leave your webcam and phonecam
on all the time, so people don't have to write spyware viruses to steal it.
^
^BAD IDEA!

The local phone companies are currently being sued for illegal wiretapping,
recording everybody, and giving it away without a warrant. Double trouble!
If you let Google turn on your webcam and read your files,
you might as well post your IP address everyone else can too.
(Or we can just Google it!)

Not really. Firefox is the safest browser. Internet Explorer and Chrome are a joke compared to Firefox. Only thing Chrome has got on Firefox is speed. However I would rather prefer a safer browser than a fast one.