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I think the main issue people have with this all is that we all f*cked up by making Chrome into the new IE6 by pushing it to a monopoly position and only now realizing that. So now we get angry at Google every time we are confronted by our mistakes, for instance when they push a change upon us that we are not especially thrilled about.

Also, we love change as long as we are the ones doing it. All other changes are bad.

We == developers

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I've been feeling like this for a while because at least back when chrome first hit it seemed like Mozilla and Google were mostly competing but modestly equal interests. Then Android took off. Then even the fringe browsers became webkit to keep up. Then about this time Google started testing the waters for this level of pushing through standards, and they've just kept pushing to what should violate something other than morality, but I don't feel like there is an appropriate mechanism to slap their wrist and push back. I really wish that most of these chrome standards would stop smelling as much "I changed it because it didn't work for my current project and I guess I'll force a standards change to meet my project deadline." I have not felt like most of the Chrome changes I have observed recently are given more thought than an intern/junior dev would give it and they don't have a Linus to tell them to stop breaking userspace.

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