[jamedjo]

Chrome as a project was still a Google thing even if they used Konqueror's rendering library.

The process model was the novel selling point at the time from my memory [1].

[1] https://www.scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/

[lmm]

The faster javascript runtime was what made it a success IMO.

[acheron]

The leveraging their search monopoly to push it and paying other software to sneak it into installs is what made it a success.

[lmm]

Nah. Safari did plenty of monopoly abuse and sneaking into installs, but still never got big on Windows. At some point the user experience does matter.