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Why Chrome Hasn’t Killed Mozilla Firefox

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 7, 2012

Four years ago, Google launched Chrome. At the time, I wrote a commentary piece that it wasn’t likely that Chrome would kill IE.

As it turns out, I was (mostly) right. IE still exists, though it has its lowest share in years, thanks in no small part to Chrome’s growing share.

SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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