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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by datalist on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:07PM (#17562067)
It had a few new concepts, mainly multi-processes, but "far superior when it came out" is a broad exaggeration.

Equally, IE was far superior to Netscape when it came out ;)

This is not to say Chrome is (now) the inferior browser but saying their marketing push has nothing to do with its market share is ignoring reality.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by Jyaif on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @06:16PM (#17562507)
It had little things like multi-process, omnibox, and something like a 10x faster JS engine than the competition, but the real killer feature was the auto-updating.
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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by datalist on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @06:38PM (#17562608)
It did come with advantages, no doubt, but - as so often - its market share is not necessarily because it tried to push the web further, a large share is simply because of Google's aggressive marketing.

To this day Google is pushing their browser if you dare to use their services with Edge.

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