> I think your assuming that competition drives bug fixes might be a bit off. i guess phrased differently, dominant market position (which Chrome has had for t

> I think your assuming that competition drives bug fixes might be a bit off. i guess phrased differently, dominant market position (which Chrome has had for those 4 years) is not conducive to "boring" tasks, such as bug fixes - at least those for which workarounds exist. but this is also what happened with IE6 - devs found clumsy workarounds for its bugs, so they never got fixed because even if end users switched to firefox, it's not like devs could suddenly ignore the 800lb gorilla with 90% market share, their sites had to continue to work everywhere, greatly reducing the incentive to switch (users will say "it works fine in both browsers!"). it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. that being said, i've had some positive experience with a rendering bug i've reported getting fixed: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=899342 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=899342, but that bug was relatively simple since it did not affect layout, just paint.