[phendrenad2]

That's a testament to how bad browsers were/are compared to Chrome.

Chrome was a ground-up project, written by highly-paid Googlers, while other browsers were sitting on old codebases built up by many average employees and unpaid volunteers over a decade+.

Chrome was also, at that time, allowed to be a pure browser for browsing the web while other browsers were trying to get you to sign up for toolbars (essentially more ad real estate for them) or use their homepage (more ad spots) and were pushing out updates constantly (an excuse to show you more ads in the updater progress window!)

[darkmuck]

Chrome was based on Webkit which was based on KHTML. It wasn't quite a ground-up project.