While doing my morning news read, I came across a new blog on ZDNet by Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols predictably praising Chrome and denigrating Firefox. Well, that's not new; SJVN's lopsided viewpoint is well known. For a more balanced view check out Tom's Hardware Guide's Web Browser Grand Prix series.

For my money, the most relevant quote V-N offers is from longtime Firefox developer Jono DiCarlo: “After years of aspiring to improve software usability, I’ve come to the extremely humbling realization that the single best thing most companies could do to improve usability is to <i>stop changing the UI so often! </i> Let it remain stable long enough for us to learn it and get good at it. There’s no UI better than one you already know, and no UI worse than one you thought you knew but now have to relearn.”

So, have any long time Firefox users been driven to Chrome by recent changes to Firefox? I'm one. Isn't DiCarlo's remark also a perfect comment on Windows 8?