Re:What is the value of browser diversity?
by CivBase on Sunday September 20, 2020 @08:40PM
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I was also around at the time. Chrome's performance and features were what made it popular with "power users", but they're only a fraction of the market.
Businesses were slow to transition thanks to dependence on IE features and, in my experience, most "casual" users could not be bothered to install a new browser.
When I'm talking about Chrome's dominance, I'm talking about their dominance across the whole market.
It took a long time for me to convince my parents to switch to Chrome. Now I'm running into the same difficulty trying to convince them to switch away from it. I really think that kind of dominance had less to do with performance and features, and more to so with familiarity.
Businesses were slow to transition thanks to dependence on IE features and, in my experience, most "casual" users could not be bothered to install a new browser.
When I'm talking about Chrome's dominance, I'm talking about their dominance across the whole market.
It took a long time for me to convince my parents to switch to Chrome. Now I'm running into the same difficulty trying to convince them to switch away from it. I really think that kind of dominance had less to do with performance and features, and more to so with familiarity.