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Historically, that crown goes to Firefox. Its 2004 1.0 release was also publicized in the New York Times. Way before Chrome came out.

• godelski 8y ago
  To be fair, FF shot themselves in the foot. They didn't keep pace with Chrome. I use FF and think it is better NOW, but that wasn't always the case. I think that's where they lost their market share. I'm glad they put the work into Quantum. But it is going to be hard to regain that market share.
  • wvenable 8y ago
    The classic problem of being first to market in software, is that your competition can learn from your design and move forward with a fresh code. Firefox is still trying to shed off code from a decade ago. The history of browsers is littered with legacy code being defeated by new code.
    • baroffoos 8y ago
      The rust rewrites are ripping out loads of old code.
      • dralley 8y ago
        "Loads" is relative. There's still 20x more C++ in Firefox than Rust.
    • zanny 8y ago
      Except Chrome wasn't some brand new project. It was Webkit which was KHTML and dated back to the mid 90s. They just wrote their, uh, chrome layer and js engine a half decade later which were, and still are, reaping tangible benefits.
  • broodbucket 8y ago
    Easier said than done when comparing a traditional open source project with a strategically important project for a massive corporation...