I also disagree that Google are building a better browser - better at/for what? That was always Microsoft's position ... to paraphrase ... "our stuff is the be

I also disagree that Google are building a better browser - better at/for what? That was always Microsoft's position ... to paraphrase ... "our stuff is the best, because the most people use it, (and democracy implies most popular = best)". It was a bulls++t position for MS then, and it's a bulls++t position for G now. Like MS was, Google is very good at pushing people to their products and keeping people. They are rather poor at writing stable, efficient, useful software - Chrome and Android are HHUUGGEE, and routinely updated with new security flaws, new APIs that add yet more security flaws, and new bugs. The purpose of chrome or android etc seems to be to force people to use it, and to force people to stay on it.