>I heard them referred to cagily as “a company in California” or “a certain fruit company.” Oh, come on. Nobody does this. Why would anybody do this? Hyperb

>I heard them referred to cagily as “a company in California” or “a certain fruit company.” Oh, come on. Nobody does this. Why would anybody do this? Hyperbole for effect is all well and good -- and the clickbait title makes it quite clear that that's what we're wading into here -- but this borders on self-parody, like saying MICRO$OFT or chanting "don't be evil!" or "WWSJD" it makes you look like a partisan rather than someone with a valid point to make. Safari does lack IndexedDB, and their 'powersaver plugin' thing has caused me headaches. Firefox is the most likely to go unresponsive under CPU load, IME, and a nasty growing habit of pushing new monetization strategies into their toolbar. Chrome has poor performance, broken video event handling, and is the one that seems most likely to break my app every time they push an update. IE8-11 have various issues with animation and SVG, and most irritatingly there are four versions of it still in active use, each with their own quirks. Edge is, I'll guiltily admit, not really on my radar yet, but I'm sure it'll have its advantages and disadvantages as well. None of them are the new IE. Even IE isn't the new IE. There's never going to be another IE6 for the web -- we've all, developers and customers alike, learned the lesson about proprietary extensions and platform lock-in.