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Depending on which market share data you are reading - Chrome isn't clear cut market leader (http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/01/chrome-passes-25-market-sh...).

I am far from Google fan but calling Chrome is a problem is naive. I use Firefox on my Linux desktop and I can make Firefox default browser on my Android phone too but my wife is stuck with Safari on her iPhone - no matter what she wants. I think that is bit of a problem and should be addressed.

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Still, chrome forces us devs to do a lot of stuff that we don’t want to — I personally found about a dozen layout bugs in Chrome that don’t exist in either IE11, Firefox, Opera 12 or Konqueror (which uses KHTML, the predecessor of WebKit).

Chrome just disables a bunch of JavaScript APIs on mobile, unless your site is .google.com or .youtube.com, etc.

If you develop only in chrome, you never notice, but if you develop in Firefox first, and your whole site doesn’t work in Chrome... well, shit.

And, on the other hand, we now have a bunch of sites with "works best in Google® Chrome™". Welcome to the 90s, Chrome is the IE6 of today.

I find the exceptions for Google sites particularly offensive. I wonder if it might bite them in the ass (as anti-competitive behaviour) one day.

Example for anyone unsure what we are referring to: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=178297#c...

Same here. I have android and GNU/Linux and Firefox is set up as default on both.

Apple will never let iOS become the janky malware fest that is Android. You can run FF and Chrome on iOS you just have to run executable code in Webkit.

What has to do the browser with malware?

It seems that the post is just a fest of FUD

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