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Sure, there are competitors so that if Chrome disappeared, we’d be fine. But imagine if Chrome had never existed. Chrome was so much better when it came out th
by brokencode 5y ago
Sure, there are competitors so that if Chrome disappeared, we’d be fine.
But imagine if Chrome had never existed. Chrome was so much better when it came out that it saved us from Internet Explorer hell.
I don’t want to picture what Microsoft would have had in store for us if Chrome hadn’t come around.
- pessimizer 5y agoThe only interesting thing Chrome added was process per tab, which isn't particularly interesting. Firefox had at least 25% market share in 2010.
- pkaye 5y agoI feel like Firefox fumbled a bit in the early days of Chrome that many people switched over to Chrome.
- NTARelix 5y agoI might be remembering the timeline wrong, but I was perfectly happy using Firefox when I first heard of Chrome. When I switched from Firefox to Chrome I was very impressed with the improvements in design, performance, and greater set of useful features. Definitely some steps in the right direction, but I believe we had already been saved from IE. These days there are many browsers to choose from (though most seem to be built on Chromium, which we wouldn't have without Chrome) and the competition is fun to spectate. The big improvement for me that Firefox had over IE was tabs, though I'm sure there were many other UX improvements that my young mind didn't recognize or hold onto.
- ben174 5y agoYour timeline is correct. But we all accepted that by switching to Chrome we were sending our entire browsing history to the biggest advertising giant to ever exist.
- aloisdg 5y agoI would argue that Opera were better than Chrome feature-wise.