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firefox was already good when chrome was launched, chrome didn't gain traction because of IE
by throwawayadvsec 3y ago
firefox was already good when chrome was launched, chrome didn't gain traction because of IE
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoChrome was much faster than FF at launch. FF only caught up recently.
- nerdix 3y agoFirefox was slowly chipping away at IE market share before Chrome because IE sucked. But Chrome was just better than Firefox when it launched so it accelerated the IE decline.
- olyjohn 3y agoI still remember fixing people's PCs who had Chrome installed, and they had no idea what Chrome was or how it got on their computers. I saw it hundreds and hundreds of times. People didn't give a shit that Chrome was slightly faster, most people had turd computers with not enough ram and didn't even know what browser tabs were and the speeds were indistinguishable for most people. This feels exactly like the whole Mac M1 thing. Every techie person seems to think that the M1 was going to cause all sorts of people to switch to Macs. Guess what? Nobody gives a shit about a 5% faster processor except for power users. Regular people don't care about Chrome being "better," either and that's not how it got market dominance.