I should have been more specific in what I mean by "IE6 situation". I was talking mostly about the years 2005-2008 when IE had already won the browser wars and

I should have been more specific in what I mean by "IE6 situation". I was talking mostly about the years 2005-2008 when IE had already won the browser wars and despite a new and better browser (Firefox in this case) already existed, users couldn't switch to it (because ActiveX, because VML, ...) and developers couldn't [care to] stop using IE-only stuff, because everyone was using IE anyway. The current Chrome situation is more or less the same now. The non-updating users problem is a bit different. I guess it had quite a contribution to the problem discussed above (e.g. if Microsoft had a good mechanism to switch most of IE6 users to 7, they might have made 7 a better - less "compatible" - browser). And Chrome's great upgrade mechanism is one of the reasons I think the Chrome situation will be even harder to overcome. IE6 became so old and ridiculously bad that some sites stopped providing first-class user experience to it's users, so that users had to do something - upgrade. The same think won't probably happen to Chrome, because: 1. Google probably remembers Microsoft's history and will try to avoid the same mistakes. 2. They have an automated mechanism to keep Chrome updated. And as long as they keep gmail and facebook working great in Chrome (and - ideally - worse in every other browser), they are safe. I guess this is even good for the users - uniformly good user experience on all devices. Though - of course - if you don't mind exposing every detail of your online life to Google. http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Nobody_cares http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Nobody_cares