You forgot one: IIRC, Chrome came bundled with some popular Windows applications. > there were a couple of years where you were simply bombarded with ads about

You forgot one: IIRC, Chrome came bundled with some popular Windows applications. > there were a couple of years where you were simply bombarded with ads about a better browser Let's not forget the whole context: Chrome's main opponent back then was not Firefox, but Internet Explorer. And it did help reduce Internet Explorer's usage share, so much that it was abandoned (again) by its developers.