Comments on: Google Chrome Makes OnTime Scream

By: coffee

coffee — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:10:54 +0000

it will be interesting to see if Chrome can get as much market share as Firefox; for now they seem to have leveled off…

By: az

az — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:02:26 +0000

I’m a sw developer (microsoft platform) and my browser of choice is Safari because IE is painfully slow and I’ve found Firefox to be buggier than safari and IE. I use OnTimeWeb a lot and avoid cancelling out of editing a ticket because in Safari I get the error “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” when clicking cancel, and then I have to delete the lock on the ticket that gets left on it. I installed chrome and it’s nice and fast and btw I get the same error in chrome when canceling out of an edit.

By: Dread Pirate Robert

Dread Pirate Robert — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:20:30 +0000

We’ll see if your predictions are right, but since it doesn’t come in Mac flavor, it won’t be replacing Firefox for me. And despite me setting up a brand new PC running XP at work, Chrome won’t install due to bugs. I wonder how fast they can fix them all?

By: Xavier

Xavier — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:24:38 +0000

Are you happy with the way Chrome handles popup ? opening a pseudo popup headed at bottom of the window, and you have to click on it to actually get the popup window ?
that’s awful… Especially to use with OnTime (we renamed it TimeOut, by the way).

I’ve just tried the nightly of Firefox 3.1 : It’s as fast as Chrome, with OnTime.
Wonderful !

By: Scott Nelson

Scott Nelson — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:15:40 +0000

what chrome seems to lack, and what makes FireFox so awesome, are the extensions that do all kinds of nifty things.

By: Xavier

Xavier — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:40:42 +0000

Well, but chrome is very basic so far, and does not much of what the now famous cartoon made us think it would feature… Easy to be quick when you don’t do much…
Now, may be others do too much…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:18:47 +0000

This whole article smells of a ploy to cash in on people googling chrome…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:02:15 +0000

>> nearly 4% of Axosoft site visitors were using Chrome.

Axosoft is the key word. Not your standard target audience. I’m amazed how certain product vendors / IT-based forum participants continally assume they represent your average internet user..

Chrome will be lucky to have 5% within 2 years since browser share has pretty much bugger-all to do with product performance or features.

(Mind you – anything that speeds up OnTime’s woeful web interface components has to be a god-send..)

By: Hamid Shojaee

Hamid Shojaee — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:20:21 +0000

Jonas, don’t forget that FF enjoys its current market share largely because Google has been promoting FF. Once Google decides to put its marketing machine behind promoting Chrome instead of FF, it’s game over for FF. I think FF will start to bleed users to Chrome very very quickly. Already, only after 3 days of Chrome being out, nearly 4% of Axosoft site visitors were using Chrome. 14 months from now (end of 2009) is a long ways away.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:26:20 +0000

I doubt the 25%+ figure… Firefox 3.1 (NOT the current Firefox 3) will have an improved Javascript engine called TraceMonkey that will at least be on par with Google Chrome’s V8 engine. It may have further improvements in the future, but that can also be said about V8, of course. I also wonder what Opera is working on.

What they have in common is a new kind of Javascript engine paradigm with actually compiling the code. I’m looking at this as a new kind of browser war. I wonder if Microsoft plans on getting on the train. There’s absolutely zero indication of that so far, unfortunately. IE 8 has slightly improved performance, but nowhere near V8 or Tracemonkey.

Anyway, I think Firefox will retain its market share and Google will climb more slowly, perhaps to 10% max in 2009.