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Safari is one of the primary reasons Internet Explorer died.

The iPhone became a huge hit and it ran Safari. Huge swaths of the internet had "requires Internet Explorer" plastered on every page. The iPhone immediately made that untenable, at least in mindshare even if marketshare was not quite there yet.

As someone who used Firefox at the time web page compatibility improved tremendously thanks to the iPhone and Safari.

I'll also remind people that Google decided they didn't want to play in the same sandbox as everyone else and forked WebKit to make Blink, then promptly went on a tear ripping out what they didn't like and adding their own proprietary extensions as fast as their engineers could think them up.

Google is also the one spamming everyone who goes to Google.com with prompts to switch to Chrome.