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Chrome was great (and offered some unique advantages at the time), but it's absurd to say there weren't high quality browsers on non-Windows platforms. Firefox
by kevingadd 6y ago
Chrome was great (and offered some unique advantages at the time), but it's absurd to say there weren't high quality browsers on non-Windows platforms. Firefox was fine, and WebKit was good enough for Google to decide to adopt it. They raised the bar by throwing engineering muscle at the problem but there was nothing "low quality" about Safari, Opera or Firefox at the time.
- dao- 6y agoA good part of the initial engineering muscle came from Mozilla. Google used to pay people working on Firefox, including the Firefox lead developer Ben Goodger, but pulled them to work on Chrome instead. So they already had a system set up for moving the web forward, but clearly they wanted more than that.