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by jlongster 5596 days ago
I work for Mozilla, and we are watching Chrome. It's just not the right time to campaign against Chrome. Chrome is only eating away from IE's market share, and IE 9 could attract a lot of non-techie users.

Adopting a process-per-tab model is currently being implemented (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis), and I imagine once that's done we will be discussing Chrome a lot more.
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tmgrhm 5596 days ago
"Chrome is only eating away from IE's market share" Really? I'd love to see some sources on that, because I know of dozens of people who've switched from Firefox to Chrome.

Obviously I wasn't suggesting you weren't watching Chrome at all, but it's good to hear you're making the right decisions in competing with Chrome (primarily the reduction of Firefox's inherent clunkiness and slowness).

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jlongster 5596 days ago
Firefox has stayed around the 30% mark of browser share, and there's an obvious connection between the steady IE drop and Chrome gain.

http://gs.statcounter.com/

There's been several articles about this:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=egsisas&xhr=t&#3...

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johncaverns 5596 days ago
I switched from Mozilla to Chrome... Mozilla is just waaay too slow. The only thing I missed were the extensions, but Chrome is getting better on those as well.

Based on my experience, Mozilla has a lot of reasons to be afraid of Chrome.

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jlongster 5596 days ago
Have you tried Firefox 4 Beta?

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/

We are nearing the end of our Firefox 3 cycle (Firefox 4 is going to be released next month), and that's where our significant speed improvements have been implemented in the last 2 years. It's about even with Chrome speed-wise.

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