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> Chrome looks almost exactly like it did over 10 years ago. I suggest you look for screenshot of Google Chrome in 2008. Market share is what it is because go
by prmoustache 3y ago
> Chrome looks almost exactly like it did over 10 years ago.
I suggest you look for screenshot of Google Chrome in 2008.
Market share is what it is because google is pre installed in the majority of the mobile market, that firefox had bad performance rep in some areas, and that google is a synonym of internet in the mouth of the majority of people nowadays the same way explorer was a few decades ago.
Most people don't care about those UI changes.
- Izkata 3y ago2008: https://techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/first-public-screen-captures-of-google-chrome/ https://techcrunch.com/2008/09/01/first-public-screen-captur... 2016: https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/google-chrome https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/google-chrome 2024: https://flathub.org/apps/com.google.Chrome https://flathub.org/apps/com.google.Chrome They're basically the same, nothing like what Firefox has been doing. Buttons went flat, bookmarks moved to the right, and two dropdowns got combined into one menu. Tabs haven't changed at all.
- prmoustache 3y agoTabs do not look as on your supposedly "2024" screenshot nowadays. And most people don't care how their tabs look and are used to dropdowns menus being reorganized and losing or getting added entries. People are used to software slowly but gradually changing. It is not like mozilla went from original phoenix browser[1] to the current one in one release. These kind of changes only annoy a small fraction of people with some special disorders. [1] whose simplicity and colored buttons I loved personnally
- 1317 3y agoyour 2024 screenshot is outdated; here's a more recent one: https://www.google.com/chrome/static/images/heroes/browser_ntp.png https://www.google.com/chrome/static/images/heroes/browser_n...