> Firefox was top dog when chrome came out - it had unseated IE already for many users fed up with XP-era crapware. Maybe in mindshare for devs but Chrome offi

> Firefox was top dog when chrome came out - it had unseated IE already for many users fed up with XP-era crapware. Maybe in mindshare for devs but Chrome officially unseated IE browser saturation in 2012. Firefox didn't pass IE until 2015 [1]. Firefox was amazing on its resurgence in mid-2000s but did get into memory/bloat stages that opened it up for minimal/performant Chrome that was also more secure at the time primarily due to the process per tab. This possibly did lead to more js bloat later, initially it was lightning fast and also had a debug console and was based on Webkit which was better than Firefox rendering. Firefox definitely saw Web 2.0 come in from 2006 on and was revolutionary in web development/debugging with Firebug and eventually that was part of the browser and is now industry standard to have a console/debugger on the browser. Most developers were using Firefox by 2005-2006 and then Chrome a couple/few years later and it has been top for almost a decade now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/media/File:Usage_Share_of_browsers_(updated_August_2018).png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/m...