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Chrome was so much better than IE or firefox when it came out. While I never saw chrome as better than Firefox, thats just a matter of taste. I dont think the

Chrome was so much better than IE or firefox when it came out. While I never saw chrome as better than Firefox, thats just a matter of taste. I dont think the average user's sense of quality had anything to do with its rise. It was a very heavy marketing campaign that if I remember correctly included tv ads, installer links on google owned websites, and even spyware style side installs that came with pop ular programs. Edit: ~10 years ago I definitely remember having to support users that accidentally installed chrome, and didnt even realize something had changed, except they couldnt use some awful ie only webpage they needed.

sliken 9y ago
I switched to chrome pretty early on. Firefox was pretty unusable then. Typically with more than 8 tabs or so, some damn ad in some damn tab would call flash, and the whole thing would hang. Chrome used a different CPU per tab and put flash in it's own process so it wouldn't hang the entire browser. I was quite impressed and told everyone I know how much better it was. Pretty quickly I switched. Even today I get the occasional query from a windows or mac user who wants the "good" browser installed instead of IE or Safari. Yes, novices still can't install their own browser no matter how easy it is.