Chrome was pretty great as well, it was desperately needed.
Google Chrome didn't start from scratch. Blink came from WebKit which came from KDE's KHTML. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine) , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML
Entirely irrelevant - Chrome really stepped up both security and speed over WebKit at that time.
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It was the rare confluence of people needing the same thing the megacorp showing them ads needed. We all benefited, no hard feelings, but always remember to look at where the puck is going.
I blame how things turned out more on Mozilla being distracted and forgetting about their own user base, to be honest.
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