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> Chrome is so popular because it has been the best browser for years. Whether that's still true is open for debate. But I remember when it came out, finally an
by SickOfSlowSites 7y ago
> Chrome is so popular because it has been the best browser for years. Whether that's still true is open for debate. But I remember when it came out, finally an answer to the godawful shite that was IE. We may dislike it now, but it saved us from Microsoft's disaster.
That wasn't Chrome at all. It was Firefox. Where is this history re-write coming from.
Firefox lost market-share when they went to Australis and became followers of Chrome instead of leaders (helped in part no doubt by funding from Google).
- marcus_holmes 7y agoNo, Firefox was off lost in the weeds and being useless at the time. I remember it well. Chrome was necessary to stop IE, utter piece of crap that it was, from dominating the world.
- Ygg2 7y agoNo. That's not it. IE was losing market share, Firefox was gaining market share slowly. Then after success of WebKit in iOS, Chrome was forked and rose exponentially.