What future for Firefox

What future for Firefox

Posted Sep 2, 2008 23:59 UTC (Tue) by qg6te2 (guest, #52587)
In reply to: What future for Firefox by rvfh
Parent article: The Google Chrome comic book

If the goal is to reduce the influence of Internet Exploder (and hence by extension the influence of MS), it makes sense for Google to support two browser projects. Instead of people having only two viable choices (i.e. IE and Firefox), three is better, simply as IE is now outnumbered with viable competition.

Some people may not like the new interpretation of tabbing in Chrome (or they might be uncomfortable with "new" features) and hence they would stick to either IE or Firefox. On the other hand, people who do not like the "standard" tabbing approach in IE or Firefox (or are comfortable with "new" features) may go for the Chrome browser.

This is somewhat akin to a company releasing the same product (say, potato chips) under two different brands, priced differently. Some people will think that the higher priced chips are "better" and hence would buy these, while other people are on a budget and hence would go for the lower priced alternative. Either way the company profits at the expense of the competition.

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