You're over-thinking things -- only a tiny proportion of people pick browsers on technical or philosophical merit. Chrome is popular because they have the support of Google's marketing heft. It really is that simple.
Every non-technical friend I have installed Chrome because "Google told them it was faster" from the link Google has on their site when you use a different browser or it is bundled with so much software.
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You're over-thinking things -- only a tiny proportion of people pick browsers on technical or philosophical merit. Chrome is popular because they have the support of Google's marketing heft. It really is that simple.
Every non-technical friend I have installed Chrome because "Google told them it was faster" from the link Google has on their site when you use a different browser or it is bundled with so much software.
That's exactly the marketing heft I'm referring to.
That, or they had a technical friend who laughed at them for using IE and told them to use Chrome.