[pjc50]

> Second, why did IE lose to Chrome from the position of market domination while Windows has always been dominating the desktop OS market?

> Now I realized that the answers to the two questions are the same

Yes - Android and the iPhone.

The only real mobile browsers are Chrome and Safari, and Safari is only available within its walled garden, so to get a mobile-like development experience on desktop people used Chrome. It all followed from there.

(IE6 was Windows-only and tried to achieve lock-in with ActiveX, which let you run native COM controls in the browser. Hilariously inappropriate security model, but popular in the enterprise, and at one time mandated by the South Korean national ID system.)

[zvolsky]

When Chrome launched, its rendering speed was in a league of its own, delivering immediate results without the need to repeatedly click a link for faster loading. The design was clean and intuitive compared to alternatives such as Firebug and Fiddler the HTTP debugging proxy.

[AndrewDucker]

It's a niche, but Firefox runs just fine on Android.

[ifdefdebug]

And it runs full featured ublock on Android giving me an ad-free web experience.