This is true. I wasn't much tech savvy back then. I switched to Chrome because it made my internet fast. Of course it might not really have, but the sleek look

This is true. I wasn't much tech savvy back then. I switched to Chrome because it made my internet fast. Of course it might not really have, but the sleek look, the circular loader instead of a progress bar kind of a loader that Firefox had at that time, faster JS engine – all this combined to give me a wow factor in terms of browsing speed. Remember, this was at the time when 250kbps of broadband speed was the "normal". And speed was easily a critical factor.