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Re:Chrome team planning to block all access from browser to ... by threeseed on Monday March 16, 2015 @07:26AM (#9210863)
This argument has been shown to be wrong on many, many occasions.

Many users do not have a choice which browser they use, do not know they even have a choice or do not know how to exercise that choice i.e. download and install a competing browser. Finally you're then left with the massive problem of sites only working on certain browsers.

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Re:Chrome team planning to block all access from browser to ... by Turing_Machine on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:20AM (#9211219)
The situation where the user doesn't know about and/or is incapable of installing another browser is pretty common with default browsers like IE and Safari, but not nearly as common with Chrome.
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Re:Chrome team planning to block all access from browser to ... by makomk on Monday March 16, 2015 @10:25AM (#9211574)
Google have been bundling Chrome with widely-used software like Adobe Flash for years now, there's probably many people who've installed it and set it as their default browser without intending to.
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