Re: Chrome
1. When it first came out, it was faster than anything else. It long ago lost that edge, but that got its foot in the door.
2. It came out at a time when Firefox had only just emerged from the ashes of Netscape, and Opera was beginning to feel pretty creaky. It shook up the field.
3. It went to a multi-process architecture early, which made it more stable than competing browsers. The idea that you could use a browser all day and not have it crash out was revolutionary.
3. It offered really good dev tools. Firefox's have caught up, but for a while nothing had anything quite like Chrome.
The data slurping became a concern later. Keep in mind some of what gets filed as "slurping" is optional stuff people actually like, like bookmark sync between systems (which Firefox has added too, now.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
