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Web Developers Still Using Firefox; Will People Have Two Browsers?
Posted on 18. Aug, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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While a good amount of people are switching over to using Chrome’s browser for their basic web needs, it still lacks the developer tools that many people who create for the web need. Indeed, Mozilla’s Chris Blizzard has said such in a recent interview with derstandard.at’s Von Andreas Proschofsky, and Blizzard sees a future where people use more than one browser.
“Actually I think a lot of people are using both now, but it’s interesting to see for sure. From a web developer standpoint I still think Firefox’ tools are far superior than anybody else’s”, Blizzard said.
He’s right. If you are going to spend time doing development work and/or web support, you need tools like Firebug. Interestingly enough, Google’s own Page Speed that I found in Webmaster Tools only comes as a add-in for Firefox to check page loading statistics, which has been identified as a factor in search rankings.
Of course, the idea is to endear users to downloading and sticking with Chrome so pushing far geeker tools that offer the same capabilities as Firebug are probably further down the road. Continuing on the path of creating a powerful browser that can serve as the basis for an operating system appears to be the key priorty for Google in 2010.
There is a lingering question to this: are people really going to use two browsers in the future?
w3schools: Chrome Adoption Growing Fast
Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
Back in January, I remarked about how quickly Chrome browser had been gaining share of the early adopter market. Back then, 10% of those who used the w3schools.com web developer site were browsing with Chrome. Now six months later that figure has jumped to over fifteen percent. Here is the month by month stats for 2010.
Those growth numbers are pretty impressive, don’t you think? They are markedly different from other browsers, whose numbers do move nearly as fast as Chrome.
So the data here tells one that those who develop for the web are increasingly interested in at least checking out what Chrome is all about. Recently Chris Blizzard from Mozilla told Gizmodo that they aren’t afraid of Chrome, and the data here suggests he’s right about that notion: Firefox has not lost any share to Chrome, it has mostly come at Microsoft’s expense.
NetApplications is reporting that worldwide use of Chrome is somewhere around 7%, so those who are using it to develop and otherwise create for the web are double that amount. That seems pretty logical to me.
