Facebook Declares War on Google by Pulling Support for Chrome Browser

By Vincent Funaro, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, May 31, 2012

Facebook is seemingly attempting to break one of the links in Google's ecosystem by slamming the company's Chrome internet browser.

FavBrowser made an interesting discovery Thursday when it stumbled upon a web browser message that recommended 3 browsers, but excluded Google Chrome. Instead, Facebook endorsed Opera, a lesser known browser that the company plans to acquire in the near future.

Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox were recommended as well.

Google became a serious competitor for Facebook when it launched its very own social network with Google+ that gained some prominence in 2011.

Executives in the company have frequently used the platform to attack Facebook.

Google's CEO Larry Page accused Facebook of holding users hostage last week.

This seems to have sparked more tension between the two companies, and could be a reason why Facebook ignores Google Chrome in its web browser recommendations to its over 1 billion users.

Facebook's blast on Google comes just a few weeks after StatCounter reported that Chrome had passed Internet Explorer to become the most popular browser in the world.

However, Microsoft's browser still dominates in the United States. Chrome's popularity is growing in other regions such South America, India and Europe. This makes the browser too large for Facebook to ignore.

Larry Page also recently reported that Google+ now has more than 100 million users, up from 90 million in Jan. 2012. This is a significant boost for the company which undoubtedly hopes to dethrone Facebook from is social network throne.

And although Facebook is the most dominant force in that arena, recent decisions made by the company to change the system's design have angered some users and encouraged them to delete their accounts.