March 16, 2009 by Matt Thomas
The fact is that Google simply have too much money and cache to fail, unless the browser is awful. Unfortunately for Firefox, it isn’t. Early tests of Chrome have found it to be efficient and secure even if it is not quite as customisable as Firefox… At least not yet.
And that’s just the thing, Google have the power to pour money into Chrome until it works, a privilege that Firefox definitely do not have. Just as important as the ability and resources, is the will and Google have proved time and again that they have that in spades, they routinely pour millions of dollars into projects that have no concrete monetisation plan. They do so in the hope, very often the justified hope, that these projects will bear fruit eventually. Chrome is essentially one of these.
So should Firefox just pack up and go home? Well, not necessarily, recent reports have told us that Chrome’s already weak market share has dwindled as the novelty wore off for the web professionals who signed up as soon as the new browser became available.
All this does is buy Firefox time however, Chrome will almost certainly bounce back once the browser is promoted and optimised properly.
Firefox’s survival hangs on their latest browser update, the latest beta of which is out now.
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