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0 pointsUvix1y ago0 comments

There were some sites requiring IE6 but not that many, and the improvements like tabs were enough for people switch to Firefox where they could.

Unfortunately Mozilla’s refusal to implement process-per-tab, combined with Flash’s instability, let Chrome eat their lunch.

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prmoustache1y ago

chrome eat their lunch for only one reason: everytime you were doing a google search, google literally begged people to download their browser while half of the smartphone were coming with google chrome by default.

In the head of people google and chrome slowly became a synonym of internet the same way the ie icon used to be in the previous decade.

The_Colonel1y ago

Beware of simplistic reasoning.

What you mention was certainly a major reason, but not the only one. Another one was that Chrome was simply a better browser for many years for normal users (mainly because of its performance).

philistine1y ago

Yeah, a lot of people switched for its performance. For a while, it was the bringing you the efforts of both Apple and Google to improve the rendering. Couldn't be beat.

kryptiskt1y ago

Also, Google paid a ton of money to bundle the Chrome installer with Flash and Adobe Acrobat downloads.

UvixOP1y ago

They're doing that now (and for the last several years). I don't remember them doing that back when Chrome overtook Firefox in 2012, though...

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