Chrome won because it was the default and installed by default and invested in heavy advertising. It was also in your phone. People didn't choose it because dev

Chrome won because it was the default and installed by default and invested in heavy advertising. It was also in your phone. People didn't choose it because devs told them to. People chose it on their own. People had Gmail and it synced shit too. People used Google and got pushed to use it. It's absolutely disingenuous to pretend Firefox lost the upper hand it had because of - bad decisions from Netscape ages ago - chrome being objectively better. > Then there was the heavy advertisement on Google.com (but that was a little later IIRC). You recall wrong. The stats showed Firefox on the way to overtake IE until chrome showed up strong and unavoidable, prompting people and being the default. Your experience with the Dev tools is fine but most power users who wanted customization preferreed Firefox and recommended it to their non tech friends and installing and add-ons is not harder than installing chrome. So it's basically anecdote against anecdote. IE won because it was the default. > Chrome won because it was a breath of fresh air after dealing with Netscape, then Firefox A fresh of uncustomizable air, right? You drove the wrong conclusions from the market movement and wanted to chuck it down to developer decisions.