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I think it was Firefox who killed IE. IE was declining in usage way before Chrome appeared. What Google killed was Firefox.
by sildur 6y ago
I think it was Firefox who killed IE. IE was declining in usage way before Chrome appeared. What Google killed was Firefox.
- fhd2 6y agoWith a combination of some actually good improvements over Firefox, and incredibly shady bundling practices. There was hardly anything you could install a few years back without it forcing Chrome as a standard browser on you.
- izacus 6y agoChrome was beating Firefox way before any bundling because it was just so much faster at browsing the web. Please don't rewrite history with things that aren't true - Chrome was significantly better browser for a long time with significantly better developer tools which made tech people prefer it early.
- jimjimjim 6y agoFirefox did hard hard work, all the way through the dark ages, it kept the flame alive. I've used firefox since the start, I still use firefox, in fact my progression was netscape->mozilla->firefox, and i'll continue using firefox. But chrome did the impossible, they shifted the Moms and Pops and most unbelievable, the absolute holy grail, the corporate desktop.
- croes 6y agoChrome killed IE in the companies because it was manageable and packable before Firefox was
- stormdennis 6y agoJust looked it up and find it hard to believe how low firefox's share is, under 4% overall. I moved back to it about a year ago from chrome and I think it's great.
- techrat 6y agoMozilla killed Firefox. Several times, in fact. How many variants of regular and mobile Firefox have there been now because the primary version always ends up a bloated mess?