Most of these comments focus on things like 'features'.
Chrome wins mostly because it has 'distribution'.
'WordPerfect' may have been better than 'MS Word' but it doesn't matter if every version of Windows comes with a link to 'MS Word'.
Google uses its dominance in Search to dominate adjacent spaces.
Firefox is simply not 'that much better' enough to convince consumers to switch, and/or they don't have the marketing budget to communicate that to the world.
It's a bit of a commodity product, and Google has significant leverage.
FF would have to work with a lot of partners to convince them to focus on FF for the thoughtful reasons we want them to, even then, it could be hard.
Chrome wins mostly because it has 'distribution'.
'WordPerfect' may have been better than 'MS Word' but it doesn't matter if every version of Windows comes with a link to 'MS Word'.
Google uses its dominance in Search to dominate adjacent spaces.
Firefox is simply not 'that much better' enough to convince consumers to switch, and/or they don't have the marketing budget to communicate that to the world.
It's a bit of a commodity product, and Google has significant leverage.
FF would have to work with a lot of partners to convince them to focus on FF for the thoughtful reasons we want them to, even then, it could be hard.