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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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