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They are both the new IE but at different point in time

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

So if people abandoned Chrome and Safari for Firefox, wouldn't Firefox be the new IE? I don't remember IE being open source and community-developed like Chromium which Chrome is based off of. I use Chromium on Linux and while there are a few things to complain about, it has been a pretty positive experience overall and worked better than Firefox.

Chromium is open source but is not community-developed.

A great article on this, Breaking the Web Forward https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...

I think they are on phones mostly.

They are one and the same thing now, WebKit!

I can't tell if you're trying to say both Chrome and Safari use the same rendering engine, but Chrome hasn't used WebKit for nearly a decade.

You’re absolutely right! I wasn’t aware of Blink!