News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
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.
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.