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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by sitkack on Saturday September 30, 2017 @08:43AM (#15372608)
Chrome didn't start from scratch. It was based off of WebKit which was based off of KHTML [0], the code has a lineage that dates back to at least 1998.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by staticassertion on Saturday September 30, 2017 @10:00AM (#15372876)
But as a new project they didn't have to worry about breaking things, supporting current users, etc.
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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by sitkack on Sunday October 01, 2017 @01:25PM (#15378798)
Not having baggage can be liberating. That phase is way smaller than most people realize.

One of the worst Chrome bugs was a short sighted attempt to remain compatible with a bad decision by netscape.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/DpOXzA...

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