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Firefox was better than IE, but eventually, Chrome became better than Firefox for a majority of people. Silent auto-update, anti-phishing, sandboxing, extension
by remir 9y ago
Firefox was better than IE, but eventually, Chrome became better than Firefox for a majority of people. Silent auto-update, anti-phishing, sandboxing, extensions that "just worked". It also came with it's own flash plug-in, which was great for non-technical people back when Flash was relevant.
Chrome did a lot of things right and for a while, it was the browser I installed on friends and family PCs because it was trouble free and I knew they would always have the latest version installed automatically.
- digi_owl 9y agoWell that, and paying every adware from here to eternity to bundle a Chrome installer...
- Spivak 9y agoAnd sticking 'Google service X is better with Chrome' on all of their sites probably didn't hurt either.
- robin_reala 9y agoAlong with multiple prime time TV ad campaigns.
- remir 9y agoI would have problem with this if Chrome was total anti-user garbage, but like I said, it was (and still is) a solid product that brought forth a lot of good things for non-technical users, plus Chromium is open source. Google is not a charity, so they used their sites to advertise their own product. Microsoft is doing the same thing with Edge, even on Windows 10.