i know a lot of people who stick with firefox because of the add-ons. i do not see anyone using chrome just for the add-ons.
google for example does not allow youtube downloading apps on their chrome web store. they have made it hard for users to use addons from third party sites. no such problem on firefox. add-ons remain the weakest aspect of chrome simply because google does not offer the same level of capability as firefox does.
chrome does well because of the google's marketing force behind it. it is promoted on google.com and tons of their services.
i am not saying chrome is a superior product. i am just saying i prefer chrome over firefox and apparently the marketing works because it has become the world's most popular browser according to some analytic companies.
and yes. there is no denying in a fact that firefox copies a lot of stuff from chrome. their new user interface is literally a copy of chrome. am i lying? no.
and i also call chrome when it copies features from firefox like for this change:
https://broadband.forum/software/33879-google-chrome-updates-141.html#post674134 though i did not mention it here. i do mention on the blog post:
This new design seems very similar to the new tab page in Mozilla Firefox which also focuses on the search box.
Google testing an alternative new tab page in Chrome!
but i would also not accept that firefox is a superior web browser. working with tabs on firefox is still a nightmare. opera does it the best. chrome comes second for me. rendering of fonts in firefox is much better than on chrome. no doubts about it. but the issues in firefox are too big for me. pretty happy with chrome-opera combo for my own workflow.
in the end, i am happy as long as people use firefox or chrome over internet explorer. i have nothing against firefox. my problem with your response is that you responded with firefox is superior in a thread that had nothing to do with firefox. i start my first post saying NOTHING SPECIAL. i just talked about a chrome app that worked for me. nothing more.
and as for comparing firefox and chrome. you are comparing the two browsers on the basis of support for third party apps. i compare the two on the basis of usability as a web browser. would you use firefox as your default browser without the add-ons? chrome on the other hand is a fantastic browser out of the box and that is a good reason why it is a good browser for newbies who do not really have any use for add-ons.
firefox fixed a major flaw with it regarding automated updates. it now deliver updates similarly to chrome in the background. which is an essential thing for newbies. chrome has done it since day one. why this is important? because you can install it on a relative's machine and you can be sure that he would have access to the latest version of the browser without anyone bothering to manually approve the update or anything like that.
