When Chrome first came out it was applauded for things developers and powerusers cared about: a sandboxed multiprocess approach, a fast JavaScript engine, low memory footprint (this is hilarious in 2017), open-source, a task manager, etc.

Remember this guy? [1] It's a 40 page comic book of stuff the masses would never care about.

[1] https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_00.html