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Safari is the new IE, Chrome has been responsible for a huge number of positive changes in the browser landscape.

I develop in Chrome because that's where the majority of our conversions come from.

I (my QA team) also tests Safari, Firefox and other browsers where a significant number of conversions come from. I never heard "just use chrome" in any professional environment.

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Same was true for IE, IE for instance pioneered asynchronous requests (which is pretty much the norm these days) and things like that - still was a bad browser though.

That's one point of comparison that glosses over Chrome's compliance with standards in stark contrast to IE.

Google is just playing the game (embrace, extend, extinguish) - meaning the outcome they try to achieve is the same.

I think the difference is that IE stopped innovating once they had the market cornered. Chrome is continously on the cutting edge of features and specs, even after it became the #1 browser.

It became bad when it stopped making progress, because the team was largely disbanded and the product stagnated in maintenance mode.

This reinforces my point about "just use Chrome". Google knows devs like Chrome and they make it easy because if more people use Chrome they can abuse their position to shape the rest of the internet to their preference. Why do you think they put energy into Chrome at all if not to get more eyeballs on Google services?

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