[sethops1]

Firefox had mainstream adoption in the Firefox 2 era, before Chrome launched. What drew people to Chrome was that it was fast, efficient, and did I mention fast? Unfortunately all browsers today seem to have forgotten how important that is.

[zitterbewegung]

The whole purpose of Chrome is to have google search by default in people's browsers. Once they have a large market share nothing else really matters. If people truly cared about speed Google would have changed it already.

[acheron]

What drew people to Chrome is that Google leveraged their search monopoly to push it, and paid other software to sneak it into installers.