Comment by gertop
1 year ago
Your version of history is bizarre. Firefox was the one that stole the market from IE. Chrome saved us from a (at the time) very sluggish Firefox.
1 year ago
Your version of history is bizarre. Firefox was the one that stole the market from IE. Chrome saved us from a (at the time) very sluggish Firefox.
Firefox was never #1. It had a very slow adoption curve driven by organic growth, and just when it started being a significant competitor, at about 25-30% of market share, Chrome got released and advertised to death (and also bundled in so many unrelated stuff like a malware), and its adoption skyrocketed.
Still, when Chrome released, IE was at about 65% market share.
Yup, it felt like overnight we could use the excuse "just use Chrome" to avoid those nasty IE workarounds.