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Re:We Need Chrome No More by brazzledazzle on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @01:06PM (#19265414)
It wasn’t entirely market driven. Chrome was collectively faster, smoother and tab crashes were isolated which was critical back then. My dad was firmly middle aged when it came out and was very attached to Firefox. After a few debates we did some very unscientific desktop-to-page render comparisons as well as loading some pretty js heavy sites and chrome beat Firefox handily.

He still took a while to come around and ultimately it was the tab isolation that convinced him. Tabs were a critical component to how he did research and a few crashes were all it took.

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Re:We Need Chrome No More by greglindahl on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @01:55PM (#19265878)
Sounds like your Dad would not have switched without your advocacy.
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Re:We Need Chrome No More by brazzledazzle on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @08:07PM (#19268255)
It was less about advocacy and more about arguing with him. I was a teenager at the time eager to best him in any argument I could.
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Re:We Need Chrome No More by behringer on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @09:56PM (#19268669)
True as that may be, we're arguing that you would not have argued it had Chrome not been advertised the way it was.
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