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I was totally ready to call you out and that the rebranding of IE to Edge resulted in no change in adoption and Microsoft wins by default but apparently I am to

• purple-again 9y ago
  Wow I honestly had no idea. I would of bet you $100 on the spot that Microsoft had more than 50% marketshare of browser traffic and considered you a sucker for taking the bet. I had no idea Chrome had dominated so much. I wonder what Firefox did wrong that it didn't become Chrome? It was the cool browser to use years before I ever heard of Chrome.
  • mrtksn 9y ago
    Maybe it was Google's push for the most part but Firefox made a reputation or being cluttered memory hogg and when Chrome came along it was so fast and fresh. Firefox used to lose it's smoothness when a tab misbehaves and didn't take advantage of the multi-core processors that were getting popular but Chrome was butter smooth even if a website is not responding(due to Flash Player mostly) because everything runs in a separate process and if a website died only that tab died. It was no-brainer to switch to Chrome. Also, Google was this cool company that was giving away revolutionary products. Don't do evil was their motto.
  • xienze 9y ago
    It probably helps that everyone visiting google.com, far and away the most popular search website, that isn’t already using Chrome is prompted to install it.