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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by CptCrunch on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:29AM (#24159170)
Google has not only become dominant because their product is good. First and foremost, they leveraged their market power through android and their search engine to get people to use chrome.
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by buttersbrian on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:43AM (#24159387)
As another said -- chrome was dominant before Android was a player.

Firefox blew a hole in the IE wall. Then chrome came along and was more acid compliant, leaner (Ux/ui), faster, and it's approach of per-tab processes was superior to a lock-up prone Firefox, or IE.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by marcosdumay on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:24PM (#24162814)
Firefox required admin rights to install on Windows, what locked most of the user base out of its reach.

Chrome got his market by silently installing as the IE rendering engine, and by being bundled with other software.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by buttersbrian on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:33PM (#24162913)
I don't think there was anything silent, IMO.

The other biggest factor IMO Chrome greatly focusing on developer tools --> eventually stealing away firebug dev, and in turn taking the throne as the developer browser of choice.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by marcosdumay on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:50PM (#24163092)
Chrome was already very popular by the time it became any good (compared to Firefox).

But even sooner than they investing in dev-tools, they made a killing from tab isolation right at a time when Firefox had most of its stability problems.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by mav3rick on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:33AM (#24159234)
Lol ? You do know Android was nascent when Chrome became dominant.
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