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Re:Chrome is Not the Standard by abritinthebay on Thursday December 21, 2017 @04:26PM (#15982933)
People do forget that IE was legitimately a good browser for quite a while - starting around IE3 it really did quite well. Plus I'll take IE4 + NN4 issues vs IE6/7/8 issues in 20-freaking-14 (or beyond, argh). IE9 at least fixed a lot.

At least the early IE vs NN stuff was fast to change and interesting. IE6 issues were the exact opposite :(

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Re:Chrome is Not the Standard by LoSboccacc on Thursday December 21, 2017 @10:44PM (#15985124)
The real explorer issue was that xp refused to die for the longest time. When those browser came out they were kinda fine in context, they got lot of hate a decade later when the world moved onto new standard but you still had 10%+ users living in the past
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Re:Chrome is Not the Standard by abritinthebay on Friday December 22, 2017 @06:14PM (#15991683)
Well that and they refused to update it for 5 years AND refused to EoL it for 7.

It was entirely due to MS’s negligence, not just XP.

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