John Socks on Nostr: nprofile1q…3s6z8 When Firefox was approximately 30% and IE was approximately 60%, I ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqzcfyv2z0ww3sg6zfdr5g34lc6cee9ng5cu8smnz9axqp4jz6jndsa3s6z8 (nprofile…s6z8) When Firefox was approximately 30% and IE was approximately 60%, I think I was running IE at work, because company standards, and Firefox at home, for rebellion.

I was pretty worried back then, because 30% might have been squeezed out over time.

MS was pushing things like ActiveX, to tie the web to Windows development, until 2013. That's why Google needed Chrome, or for that matter ChromeOS. That OS was licensed for free to create an independent platform.