As a long time web developer, I worked through IE dominance. I was a Firefox early adopter and advocated for it amongst friends and family for years. Furthermor

As a long time web developer, I worked through IE dominance. I was a Firefox early adopter and advocated for it amongst friends and family for years. Furthermore, I am very unhappy about the state of the landscape today. One browser should not be dominating all the others; it is an imbalance in the order of the web. The hyperbole in your comment kinda kills me though. The glory days of web standards that you are talking about were largely glorious because Firefox came out from left field and started implementing standards and new features at a high velocity compared to Microsoft's IE. Firefox started to beat IE in tooling and platform features, and it was open source to boot. Firefox even had the edge on IE with regards to security (to be fair the bar was low in those days). All of these details greatly endeared Firefox to me. As a web developer, I loved Firefox for what it stood for and also what it enabled me to do. Chrome is "winning" the web browser game by taking the pages out of Firefox's playbook. Chrome is open source. Chrome is heavily involved in the standards process. Chrome takes a lot of credit for pushing browsers towards evergreen release cycles. Chrome offers the best developer tooling. Chrome implements standardized web platform features at a rapid clip. I hate that Chrome is dominating the market. But I don't hate Chrome, and I definitely don't think the status quo today is worse than the one during the Internet Explorer regime. I hate it because it shows that there is a tremendous imbalance in the resources spent on other browsers compared to Chrome. I hate it because I don't think that the ecosystem is as great as it could be if the developer mindshare was more distributed across different browsers. It's easy to forget that the "bar" for "gutter low" was set a long time ago by a company (M$) that decided the web was boring and could die for all it cared. I think it's simplistic and misleading to suggest that the situation today comes close to that.