Firefox as a workhorse, Chrome as a sports car
Thanks to the new Add-ons Manager in Firefox 4, which sends the meta-data of all installed extensions through the AMO API once a day, developers have the opportunity to get detailed statistics on the extensions. Mozilla published general statistics from March 22 to June 19 .
The extensions are set to 85% of Firefox 4 browsers, the percentage slightly decreased from 89% in March as browsers were upgraded, but decreased insignificantly.
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The graph also shows interesting fluctuations on weekends, when the number of Firefox 4 users (as well as the general Internet audience) decreases, but the percentage of users with extensions increases.
On average, each browser has five extensions installed. Although, it depends on what method to consider the average (see the diagram).
The total number of downloads from the Mozilla catalog has already exceeded 2.5 billion extensions, and the total number of active extensions on all Firefox 4 browsers is 580 million per day.
Apparently, a huge number of people remain on Firefox only because of their favorite extensions and plug-ins. In fact, they are now the main advantage of Firefox over the "competing" browsers (although nowadays we can’t talk about any "browser war", not like before ). Maybe this is the main thing, due to which Firefox holds a huge audience.
For comparison, on Chrome use extensions of about 33% . As of December 2010, there were 70 million downloads from the catalog - compare with 2.5 billion on Firefox!
We can assume that the weak desire of Chrome users to install extensions is due not only to the poor directory. In fact, there you can find almost everything the same as on Firefox. Of course, there is a difference, but it does not explain such a big difference of 85% versus 33%. Perhaps the reason for the “image” of the browser: Firefox is perceived as a “browser for extensions” (workhorse), and Chrome as an ultra-fast browser for surfing (sports car). Of course, this is just a fantasy, because browsers are not trademarks. No one seems to be working specifically on their “image”, but the words “speed” and “Chrome” are surprisingly often found in one sentence in Google’s marketing materials. Maybe such statements Google harms itself?
The extensions are set to 85% of Firefox 4 browsers, the percentage slightly decreased from 89% in March as browsers were upgraded, but decreased insignificantly.
')
The graph also shows interesting fluctuations on weekends, when the number of Firefox 4 users (as well as the general Internet audience) decreases, but the percentage of users with extensions increases.
On average, each browser has five extensions installed. Although, it depends on what method to consider the average (see the diagram).
The total number of downloads from the Mozilla catalog has already exceeded 2.5 billion extensions, and the total number of active extensions on all Firefox 4 browsers is 580 million per day.
Apparently, a huge number of people remain on Firefox only because of their favorite extensions and plug-ins. In fact, they are now the main advantage of Firefox over the "competing" browsers (although nowadays we can’t talk about any "browser war", not like before ). Maybe this is the main thing, due to which Firefox holds a huge audience.
For comparison, on Chrome use extensions of about 33% . As of December 2010, there were 70 million downloads from the catalog - compare with 2.5 billion on Firefox!
We can assume that the weak desire of Chrome users to install extensions is due not only to the poor directory. In fact, there you can find almost everything the same as on Firefox. Of course, there is a difference, but it does not explain such a big difference of 85% versus 33%. Perhaps the reason for the “image” of the browser: Firefox is perceived as a “browser for extensions” (workhorse), and Chrome as an ultra-fast browser for surfing (sports car). Of course, this is just a fantasy, because browsers are not trademarks. No one seems to be working specifically on their “image”, but the words “speed” and “Chrome” are surprisingly often found in one sentence in Google’s marketing materials. Maybe such statements Google harms itself?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/122468/
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