If you had taken a moment to actually scan those search results, you would have realized that "Chrome is the new IE" is typically a reference to its ubiquity.

If you had taken a moment to actually scan those search results, you would have realized that "Chrome is the new IE" is typically a reference to its ubiquity. Safari and Firefox is typically called the new IE because they are lagging behind the times. Which is why I said "IE6" in my original comment. The later versions of IE were very decent. They certainly didn't seem like the frozen accident of history - an issue Firefox continues to grapple with.