[skavi]

Back in the early days of Chrome, I definitely feel that a lot of people switched and continued using it because it looked and felt better.

[DistressedDrone]

Maybe it looked better, but I think it felt better because it was much faster.

This is a marketing push disguised as an aesthetic change. Mozilla, please stop trying to make Pocket happen, it's not going to happen.

[thrdbndndn]

Chrome was way faster than Firefox before Fx dropped its old addon system.

It was so bad that my main profile (with shittons of addons) at the time took about whooping ~10 seconds to cold-start.

[pjmlp]

When I use Edge Chrome, ironically gmail tells me to switch to Chrome, that is how people switched to Chrome.

[jansan]

Many people who I know switched to Chrome because I told them to.

[eknkc]

I think people forget how good it was compared to both IE and FF. It was fast, responsive, clean and a major upgrade to whatever you were using.

It was not Gmail advertising that pushed people.

[pjmlp]

Now we get to enjoy ChromeOS across all devices not only Chromebooks.