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It became popular because it was faster and better, despite the memory hog memes. One of the rare cases where a non default option overtook the defaults.
by adam_arthur 5y ago
It became popular because it was faster and better, despite the memory hog memes.
One of the rare cases where a non default option overtook the defaults.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoNope. It became popular because Google advertised it on their homepage for years.
- adam_arthur 5y agoDoesn't matter, Safari and IE were defaults, no advertising needed. Chrome wouldn't have prevailed if those browsers were even close to as good at the time.
- lwkl 5y agoMicrosoft also was forced by the EU to offer a browser choice in a fresh install of Windows. At least in Europe this probably offered a lot of visibility to alternative web browsers. Also IE felt years behind the competition and the situation isn't even remotely comparable to Safari. It seems like the Safari team made some efforts to catch up. While they aren't at the same point as Firefox or Chromium they did catch up a little bit over the last year. The situation with IE was completely different. Microsoft used IE to push proprietary standards like ActiveX and it felt like there wasn't really a active development team for Internet Explorer or that Microsoft IE wasn't a priority. The first thing isn't true for Safari and while it feels like Safari wasn't a priority for Apple they announced making more of an effort if I remember correctly and if they don't Safari will probably go down the same road as IE.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoThe situation is totally identical, the 'distinctions' you outlined are debatable, but even if true, have no relevance to the antitrust law. This is the equivalent of just like 'well he stabbed a man, but the guy deserved it and was a filthy pleb"