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Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by llbbdd on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:41PM (#47007552)
Google definitely benefited from being able to push Chrome on the homepage, but it was also a bit of a layup given every other browser completely sucked at the time. Chrome said that browsing the Internet didn't have to be slow and caught MS+Mozilla with their pants down. Safari is still working on pulling theirs back up.
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Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by ch_sm on Saturday February 14, 2026 @10:37AM (#47015309)
> Safari is still working on pulling theirs back up.

not sure about this take, given that chrome‘s rendering engine was famously based on Safari‘s - WebKit - before they forked it (Blink). V8 was indeed faster than Safari‘s JS engine at the time. However, today, Safari is objectively faster in both rendering (WK) and JS performance (JSCore).

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Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by llbbdd on Sunday February 15, 2026 @05:29AM (#47022647)
They caught up in performance but failed at what Apple was historically good at, vertical integration. Safari still sucks, and nobody talks about it because nobody uses it.
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