Yep, Chrome is the new IE. Only instead of ActiveX and small proprietary HTML additions and EEE, it's a full coup de tat on web standards and Embrace, Extend, Control.
Coup d'état: French, "stroke (coup) over/of the State (état)".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
/pedantry
Chrome is the young IE, the one disregarding the competition and imposing their own standards.
Safari is the old IE, the one that is behind other browsers in terms of standard as but that you cannot ignore because it ha too big of a market share