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This article is ahistorical - it was Firefox that first shook IE's dominance. Chrome took over the Firefox niche and finally claimed dominance because it ran s
by Semiapies 9y ago
This article is ahistorical - it was Firefox that first shook IE's dominance. Chrome took over the Firefox niche and finally claimed dominance because it ran so much better, while still meeting web standards.
I develop with Chrome not just because it's the least pain in the ass and has a good ecosystem of tools, but because it adheres to standards. I can't remember the last time I've made a page in Chrome and it didn't work in Firefox or even Edge. It's only weird, non-standard browsers I have to work around.
- soperj 9y agoI've made lots that don't work in Safari though.
- bactrian 9y agoFirefox kept the fire burning but Chrome is what stirred Microsoft into action. Chrome is creepy privacy invading software designed to help maintain Googles search monopoly. Like Search, Chrome's quality is the honey and we are the flies.
- Karunamon 9y agoYou say "creepy privacy invading", I say hooked up to the only search engine worth a damn and providing trivially disabled features that actually save me time and pain.
- newscracker 9y agoIf you start using DuckDuckGo for your searches, you can use different commands for different search platforms if you find the DDG results lacking (which I do many a times, depending on the topic/context). For example, !s would search Startpage [1] (a search engine that claims not to track but uses Google search internally), !g would search Google, !w would search Wikipedia, and so on. It takes maybe a few more seconds, but offers a lot of flexibility. [1]: https://www.startpage.com https://www.startpage.com