On January 11, 2016 9:01:30 PM GMT+02:00, Elad Alfassa <elad(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Nikos Roussos
<comzeradd(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
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>
> >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.
>
Installing Flash does not count as "just works"... and Firefox does not
support EME on Linux, and it won't support it for a while. I tried it
this
week with both the release version, and nightly, and neither had EME
working.
And given Linux current user base, I don't think that's a reason that makes Chrome
more popular.
Chrome is the most popular browser for pretty much the same reasons that Windows is the
most popular operating system. It has nothing to do with "just works" moments,
which anyway are different for most users and hard to identify their impact. For instance
cutting off third party trackers just works on Firefox. It is important for me, but does
it matter for the majority of the users? Unknown.