That's only because it was the "Chrome" (i.e. the dominant browser). Look at what happened when Microsoft eventually tried to catch up with Chrome - they gave up.
That is true, but Chrome is not the problem (it's merely a cause). Problem are web developers blocking their sites. Funny enough, Google being in the lead.
As some who has used the Web since 2000, I could not second more! Chrome dominance feels a bit better then Internet Explorer dominance, because the Microsoft browser was shitty about features and documentation (anybody remembers quirks mode and the IE box model?). In the grand, the overall topics did not change (in many cases it's always been about DRMs, OS support, being the first setting/implementing the standards/proposals). Unfortunately the web browser landscape got thinner. The decline of Opera and the modern Internet Explorer (what was his name again?) is a real loss for web diversity.
and yet, the saddest thing of them all, is that one can just... install Chrome!
it's not like the dark ages of IE6, where having to resort to use IE6 was also forcing to use Windows as well and forcing to use a dated, closed, non standards compliant browser.
Chrome is free, available essentially everywhere, standards compliant, fast and with cutting edge web features.
And that's a pity, that's what makes it just too easy to create a monopoly.
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