Sunday, July 26, 2009

Chrome vs. Firefox

If you didn't know that these are web browsers, don't you think that the title of this post could also be the title of some Xbox game or a sci-fi movie from the '70s or something?

Anyway with that said, I'm not quite sure how I feel about the points in this article. Why? Well, I've been a loyal Firefox user since I got a new computer about 4 years ago. It just blows away IE in every conceivable way. I love that, as the article describes, it's possibly the best example (outside of maybe Linux) of open-source software with a community ethic that really works. This is something we've been reading about a lot in LIS 2000.

However, when I tried out Chrome after downloading it by accident a while ago (apparently you can download it if you download Skype at the same time), I was astounded by how fast it was. Thus, I feel I'll be using Chrome in the future (at least somewhat). I also don't know if Chrome can capture the market share of Firefox or IE.

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