11 Reasons Why Firefox Should Really, Really Be Afraid of Google's Chrome

4. Chrome is designed with Mobile Computing in mind. Google itself said that their choice of Web-kit, the open source framework behind Chrome browsing capabilities, was motivated by the Android team. Also, you can bet your bottom penny that Google will soon release a mobile version of Chrome.

5. Chrome wants to be what Firefox has always aspired to: A fast, bug-less, memory-efficient web browser. Over the year's, Firefox has unfortunately become a bloated piece of software much like the Internet Explorer it derided for so long.

6. Google has money... Loads of money as well as almost unlimited resources. For example, they will be testing each new Chrome browser build against millions of pages from their massive web crawler every week. Similarly, they will use their huge database of websites to tackle phishing and malware-laden websites.

7. Mozilla has spread itself too thinly. Weave, Ubiquity, Tracemonkey, Firefox Mobile. Rather than solving immediate problems now, Mozilla decided to dedicate precious resources to imagine what the future browsers would look like.

8. Mozilla has become lazy, much to the chagrin of its users. Memory leaks? Still there... Incompatibilities? Still there... Sluggishness? Still there... Worst still, Mozilla has decided to leave interesting non-core features in the hands of its community for better and for worse... Sometimes, democracy is not the best way forward.