Google Chrome vs Mozilla Firefox
Who browses the browsers?
Google Chrome is superfast, and fits in tidily with Google’s ecosystem.
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FOR THE LONGEST TIME everyone used Microsoft Internet Explorer, and then one day, around 2013, the world woke up and everyone was using Chrome. How did that happen, and should we care? Google launched Chrome in late 2008, when Firefox from the non-profit Mozilla was pootling along at 30 percent market share and IE at a seemingly insurmountable 70 percent share. Jump forward four years and Chrome had half the market— and increasing—with IE and Firefox fighting for second and third place.
Chrome’s unstoppable success seems like a combination of agile development— quickly embracing the latest open-source technologies and standards—Google’s dominant search position, its growing online tool suite, and its mobile success with Android. Google is everywhere, bringing Chrome with it.
Firefox is the sweetheart of the opensource world, the default browser in most Linux distros. It was spun out of the Mozilla Suite, which was in turn a fork of Netscape Communicator, around 2002, and has been in constant development ever since by Mozilla.