Hacker News Reader

Comment by mahmud | Hacker News Reader

It doesn't hurt that Google has been pushing chrome via ads like crack.

or that its faster than all other browsers in my experience.

Which one is the bigger population that can statically accommodate this growth? the set of people who consciously shop for browsers with faster Javascript VMs and faster startup times, or the set of people who click on Google ads? Specially authoritative looking ones?

Let's be real.

It's not like the performance increase is subtle.

The five buttons you have to click, each saying 'I acknowledge that this software may set my computer on fire' before you can even run an installer on windows has really cut down on program installation by the unwashed masses- in short, I think you are wrong.

You are forgetting what people had to cope with before. The new security popups are nothing compared to the abuse shareware has heaped on users.

If the security warnings are discouraging people from installing new software, they would equally discourage Chrome and Safari installation. So this is not an issue.

When it comes to web users, I lean towards them being "naive". You are free to hold a positive impression of the world as benchmarking enthusiasts :-)

For some reason you get no security warning when installing chrome on vista or windows 7. I have done this in several windows 7 machines, no popups no nothing, just accept terms and click install and chrome is installed. Can anyone else verify this? I am using dev builds, if that makes any difference.

That's because it only installs for the current user, not everyone on your machine. The exe is located in C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

I actually hate that behaviour, specially as the family computer does have several user accounts.

takes less than 1 minute to install...

I use Chrome not because I did any research, but because Safari and Firefox can't handle my volume of tabs (~30-50, more sometimes). Chrome can.

You don't have to shop around for browsers to find Chrome a pleasing experience compared to Safari, and especially not Firefox on Mac.

I bet the Youtube link on all pages that promote Google Crome helped it more then all the ads for Safari for example.

Yes I was surprised to see a Chrome ad at Tottenham Court Road station on the London Underground the other day.

On Monday the entire cover of Metro (big London/UK free commuter paper) was a four side Chrome ad. It attempted to explain open source, javascript performance and the independent tabs. Not exactly normal advertising material. And today I saw a Youtube ad on the side of a bus...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com