Hacker News Reader

"They made Chrome from scratch"

They're using the WebKit rendering engine. While Chrome is a great browser, I'd hardly say it was "made from scratch".

Well, Chrome is so much more than Webkit. (See: V8, among other things.) He said "mozilla", not "Gecko".

Sure, but that was Google. If some random, unknown company made a browser just as good as Chrome, it wouldn't have gotten a tenth the users Chrome has now.

yeah exactly. see: opera.

a tenth would be generous.

Precisely. Chrome got advertised on the Google.com homepage. You can't buy an ad that effective, anywhere.

I would say Mozilla/Gecko was a very good choice when the project started. Webkit itself was just being open-sourced at the time and cross platform compatibility was lacking.

I'm sure it seemed like a great choice at the time. Remember, Flock is pretty old. The original beta came out in 2005.