[citation][nom]ztr[/nom]Thus Chrome is successful with its rapid releases and FF on the other hand is.......[/citation]
Perhaps this isn't what the majority feels, but here is the difference for me:
Google Chrome updates pretty much without my knowledge. I personally thought I was still running 11.x.x. Turns out (just checked) I'm running 16.0.912 and I had NO idea. Being an IT person, at first it was kind of scary that it updated itself without my knowledge, but Google has yet to break a core functionality, so I'm okay with it.
Last time I used Firefox, it bugged me every moment it is running for an update. I know it sounds dumb but sometimes I just don't want to click the update button. When FireFox moved to a rapid release schedule, it was bugging me even more. That in combination with changing the interface from the classic 3.5 interface is the two major reasons why I switched to Chrome. Of course Firefox might now be doing silent updates for all I know, but too little too late for me. Now Chrome has me sucked in with features like Sync, Cloud Print, and the OmniBar.
[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]Is there an actual technical reason why Chrome can not run on Win 2k?[/citation]
Don't get me wrong, Windows 2000 is a fantastic operating system, and is probably still my favorite version of Windows even with Windows 7. But common now... it is time to move on, it is 11 years old.
As for why Chrome doesn't support Windows 2000, I would assume because Windows 2000 costs extra money and time to support. Since Windows 2000 has less than a quarter of a percent market share (<0.25%), they probably felt like it wasn't worth it. And actually, I agree with them.