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0 pointspavs9y ago0 comments

Unless I am missing something. We have seen some major improvements and innovations in the browsing world from major competition even since Chrome entered the market.

Your definition of innovation might be different, but both IE and Firefox have gone through major changes for the better ever since chrome entered the scene.

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Gustomaximus9y ago

I guess this comes to ones definition of recent. Chrome launched 8 years ago - how fast time goes! I dont know how closely you followed browser news at that time but there was a constant fight for features and faster browsing in the few years before/after that launch. And it's not like nothing has happened since that time but it does seem to have slowed significantly the last few years. I'd love to see that passion return to the wider market. There must be so many features we cant even think of that will become 'how did I live without that' yet invented for such a core piece of software category.

pavsOP9y ago

Major rewrite and redesign takes time even for the world largest software company, in the past 8 years or so both MSFT IE and Firefox has gone through major rewrites in their js engine, rendering engines and UI. Chrome on its part forked webkit so that they can make changes and add feature faster, which was not possible before.

Making browsing and maintaining your own rendering engine is not easy which is why we don't have a lot of competition in the this market.

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