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by digibo
2672 days ago
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I vaguely remember all of those things as separate phases.
- Moving away from IE, I fell in love with Opera (lots of built-in features), most others with Firefox
- Chrome comes in, it's Google, it's lightweight, people try it and like it
- Chrome gets really fast, it appeals to even more people
- Meanwhile, Firefox has enough extension power to replace Opera for me (who can live with the tabs BELOW address bar or without mouse gestures?)
- Chrome implements the aforementioned technical stuff (separate processes, etc.), appealing to power users (this may have happened before speed improvements or at the same time)
- Chrome finally gets extensions and I start using it personally, but it's impossible to be a web dev without Firefox+Firebug. (IE6 still sucks, but combined with Visual Studio, feels superb for JS debugging)
- Chrome's dev tools gradually get better at everything. I start living in Chrome. ... years later ... - A year ago I often used Firefox for its great Canvas debugger. They broke it. I've since forgotten about Firefox. ... 2019 ... - Microsoft is trying to drive people away from IE, hoping for Edge adoption. I don't care for Firefox. Opera is almost Chrome with extensions. Edge sounds like it wants to be Chrome. Chrome won on most battlefronts. I don't like that fact, because of the "free from corporate greed" reasons mentioned, but it's going to be hard to change the status quo. |
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Lolno, they gave up and are ditching Edge to use Chrome because Electron. https://9to5google.com/2018/12/03/microsoft-chrome-based-bro...