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nijam Silver badge

Re: "It may be the only game in town that people actually care to use"

> Nobody hindered you to use Mac OS, OS/2, Solaris, BSD, or the early version of Linux, or any other OS

Nobody's stopping you using Bing, etc., either.

> and without the EU ruling, Chrome would have gone nowhere.

Given that Microsoft delaying implementing the ruling, then applied it (but only in the EU, not the rest of the world, you'll be astounded to hear), then "forgot" and stopped implementing it... I don't believe Chrome would have been affected, although Firefox got a little benefit, it's true.

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