Firefox 3.0 recorded usage share of web browsers. Estimates of Firefox 3.0's global market share were generally in the range of 4–5%, and then dropped as users migrated to Firefox 3.5 and later Firefox 3.6. Partially as a result of this, between mid-December 2009 and the end of January 2010, Firefox 3.5 was the most popular browser (when counting individual browser versions), passing Internet Explorer 7. Mozilla ended support for Firefox 3 on March 30, 2010 with the release of 3.0.19. Firefox 3.0 was developed under the codename "Gran Paradiso". This, like other Firefox codenames, is the name of an actual place;
Google Chrome 10.7, and 10.8 ended in April 2016 with the release of Chrome 50. Support for OS X 10.9 ended in April 2018 with the release of Chrome 66. Google Chrome was met with acclaim upon release. In 2008, Matthew Moore of "The Daily Telegraph" summarized the verdict of early reviewers: "Google Chrome is attractive, fast and has some impressive new features..." Initially, Microsoft reportedly played down the threat from Chrome and predicted that most people would embrace Internet Explorer 8. Opera Software said that "Chrome will strengthen the Web as the biggest application platform in the world". But by February