On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Nikos Roussos
<comzeradd(a)fedoraproject.org> 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