March 15, 2009 by Matt Thomas
For years now Firefox has been the web geek’s browser of choice, steadily growing its share of the market at Internet Explorer’s expense. Better customisability, a perceived superiority when it comes to web born viruses and the simple fact that it isn’t made by Microsoft have helped it gain a thoroughly respectable market share.
Another reason for the independant’s opportunity to play with the big boys has, of course, been Google’s backing, financial and otherwise, without which the browser would, in all likelihood, have vanished without a trace. This arrangement has worked perfectly well until everything changed with the release of Chrome, Google’s first foray into the browser world. The question on everybody’s lips is now, can Firefox handle the jump from Google beneficiary to Google competitor?
If you were to look at the user figures right now then you’d say absolutely, Chrome’s stats are currently in the fractions of a percent territory hovering somewhere around the level of fringe browsers like Opera, though few expect the search top dog to struggle for long.
(More Tomorrow)
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