> It's actually somewhat ironic, since chrome wasn't ever specifically intended to take over the browser market I remember that was the early line about Chrome

> It's actually somewhat ironic, since chrome wasn't ever specifically intended to take over the browser market I remember that was the early line about Chrome, and I believed it then. I no longer believe it; Google is spending waaay too much money advertising Chrome for it to be true. I recently came back from Europe to Melbourne, Australia to discover the central train station with every available advertising space plastered with giant ads for Chrome. And I'm being quite literal about that - Google clearly went and bought out every spot in an entire section of the station. I don't quite understand Google's full motives for Chrome but I now believe it matters very much to them that it gains substantial market share. Chrome is technically excellent and my browser of choice on any platform it is available on. But that is only half the reason it is succeeding.