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GeekyBearyesterday at 10:08 PM1 replyview on HN

I remember Google buying Chrome market share by tricking users into installing Chrome when they didn't pay attention while clicking next through the installers for more popular software.


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izacusyesterday at 10:47 PM

Your memory seems to be broken, since what really happened was that Chrome was just stupidly faster and nicer to use than IE and Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox.

Rewriting history is wrong - Firefox was kind of a dog for a long time.

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