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0 pointssupertrope8mo ago0 comments

The market often rewards bloat (more features) not technical excellence. I think a big marketing push or pre-install partnership would help them a lot. Their marketshare is now so low that web developers unironically state “Best viewed in Google Chrome” like it’s 2003 when IE6 had 95% marketshare.

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account428mo ago

The "market" doesn't care about Firefox at all. It has already chosen Chrome and making a second Chrome won't change that.

sabjut8mo ago

"The market has already chosen Internet Explorer and making a second Internet Explorer won't change that."

- This was probably said by someone in a meeting at Google in 2006

toast08mo ago

Chrome is an obvious win for Google.

Rather than paying browser makers for every search, they can make one time payments to convert users to Chrome, and then get the searches for free.

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thesuitonym8mo ago

Sure, but Google didn't make a second Internet Explorer, they made a new thing.

marcosdumay8mo ago

Maybe the one where they decided not to make a second Internet Explorer and create a different browser? But I doubt they even considered it.

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