> Because Chrome is advertised extensively
Yep. Google's spending a lot on marketing. It's the same reason people buy ridiculously expensive brands like Tide and Cheer (in the US) instead of generic laundry detergent, even though they are all parity products and perform 100% identically, having no notable differences in composition other than color and fragrance. As a web developer I kind of have to use every modern browser at least for testing purposes, and have yet to see any real productivity reason to use Chrome over FF. I have nothing against Chrome, mind you, but I depend heavily on a large number of FF add-ons of which Chrome has no equivalents. If I were just a random user I might like Chrome's leanness, but for me it's minus when that leanness includes a sparsity of add-ons that do things I need.
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> Because Chrome is advertised extensively Yep. Google's spending a lot on marketing. It's the same reason people buy ridiculously expensive brands like Tide and Cheer (in the US) instead of generic laundry detergent, even though they are all parity products and perform 100% identically, having no notable differences in composition other than color and fragrance. As a web developer I kind of have to use every modern browser at least for testing purposes, and have yet to see any real productivity reason to use Chrome over FF. I have nothing against Chrome, mind you, but I depend heavily on a large number of FF add-ons of which Chrome has no equivalents. If I were just a random user I might like Chrome's leanness, but for me it's minus when that leanness includes a sparsity of add-ons that do things I need.