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HN was so hyped when chrome came out. Pushing it hard. A few people were saying, um guys, chrome is made by a company that sells ads, this is not going to wor
by KevinMS 1y ago
HN was so hyped when chrome came out. Pushing it hard. A few people were saying, um guys, chrome is made by a company that sells ads, this is not going to work out well.
- mkozlows 1y agoChildren who were born when Chrome came out can vote in the midterms next year. If your prediction takes as long to mature as a newborn baby, it's maybe _too_ prescient.
- loktarogar 1y agoIt's been a good 16 years, though.
- KevinMS 1y agothat was part of the plan
- wting 1y agoChrome launched in an era where IE didn't stop the gazillion pop ups and crashed pretty often losing dozens of windows, before tabbed browsing and with no restore. Firefox was a resource hog due to memory fragmentation. Google was also the company that espoused, "Do no evil" and contributed a bunch to open source. A lot has changed since then.
- queenkjuul 1y agoEveryone was hyped when Chrome came out. This is hard to believe but the world was different 20 years ago
- whoisyc 1y agoI remember Firefox crashing on me nearly daily around the time Chrome came out. I didn’t need anyone to push Chrome on me. Chrome was just simply technologically superior. But of course today there is little reason to not use Firefox.