I don't think this is particularly true in the case of Chrome. In the case of FF, maybe, but Chrome had a well-oiled marketing machine behind it. I was volunt

I don't think this is particularly true in the case of Chrome. In the case of FF, maybe, but Chrome had a well-oiled marketing machine behind it. I was volunteer coaching a HS debate team, none of whom had any interest in "tech", and they all of my students switched to Chrome from FF/IE with zero input from a supposed tastemaker like myself, and Chrome had no extensions/adblock on launch, which kept me from adopting it.