Firefox integrates Facebook Messenger, will you switch from Chrome?

Originally published on Kapuno in the Technology community

🔗 Firefox Gets Social with Facebook (Article)

🔗 Facebook Messenger for Firefox (Video)

The browser battle continues to rage and Firefox took a page from RockMelt’s play book and added a deep social integration with Facebook Messenger.

As of October of 2012 the stats are as follows [1]:

Chrome - 44.9%
Firefox - 31.8%
Internet Explorer - 16.1%
Safari - 4.3%
Opera - 2.0%

From Firefox’s Announcement:

Facebook Messenger for Firefox lets you chat with friends and stay connected with their updates wherever you go on the Web, without needing to switch between or open a new tab. You can chat with your friends and family while doing anything from shopping online for the perfect gift, cheering your team on in the big game, watching a video or just surfing the Web. Of course, if you’re not feeling social, you can easily hide the sidebar or even disable the feature.

[1] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers\_stats.asp

Responses

Hooman Radfar

December 03, 2012

No I don’t think so. Facebook messenger is a ‘nice to have’ not a ‘have-to-have.’ Firefox has a huge challenge vs. Chrome. Chrome is eating the world.

Cyrus Radfar (December 03, 2012)

Find it amazing that Google was one of the big reasons Firefox survived and now it’s slowly but surely killing it.

Almost the entirety of Mozilla’s income — 97% of $104 million — arrives in the form of royalties from the Firefox search box, and the lion’s share (86%, $85 million) of those royalties are paid by the default search engine: Google. [1]

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-money-or-why-google-needs-firefox

Zach Zangeneh (December 06, 2012)

Any time I see someone using firefox I think less of them as a human being.

Justin Higgins

December 03, 2012

Nope. I was already mostly committed to Chrome anyway, and now that I finally have a smartphone with Android 4.1 that runs Chrome, the integration between phone and desktop browsers is too great to switch back to Firefox.

Cyrus Radfar (December 03, 2012)

How do you like the voice search on Jellybean (v 4.1)?

Justin Higgins (December 03, 2012)

I just got it this morning, but so far I’m really digging it. I just recently got this current phone (I had been on a pretty terrible Droid Charge that was stuck on 2.3, and voice search was pretty poor and slow on that one, and just got the 4.1 Jelly Bean update this morning), so I haven’t really had a ton of time to play with it. But so far it’s seemed to be really accurate, and from what I’ve read about the kind of stuff Voice Search can handle, it seems to be pretty thorough.