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Charlie Clark Silver badge

Re: "Google brought out and pushing Chrome that things changed significantly"

Mozilla reached 30% market share before Chrome became significant, and that was enough to break IE monopoly which was then about 55%. Probably Mozilla share would have increased, if Google didn't try to install Chrome everywhere and people believed it was a good idea to install it.

The latter was very much a case of the biter bit…

IE eventually lost to the other monopoly builders Safari and Chrome. The irony is that Mozilla and Opera, Opera's work on WHATWG cannot be overstated, did pioneer modern web standards but it was the combined might of Apple and Google that really got them established. Both Google and Apple are heavy users of open source software but I'd argue that Google contributes quite a lot more back.

Blink was forked not just by Google but by others who were disenchanted by Apple's stewardship once WebKit did everything it needed for the App Store: Apple also doesn't need to worry much about building for different toolkits.

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