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I am sure folks at Microsoft were saying the same of IE 5 and 6, as I was around when it took over.

I would love for something to trounce chrome the way it did IE, and even FF (which was so slow chrome felt lightning fast by comparison).

I'm not optimistic that it'll happen, but I'd still like to see it.

It starts by not shipping Electron garbage, and write browser agnostic Webapps.

Tauri and others allow using the system webview while still providing full native programming capabilities via rust or whatever language the particular framework uses.

There's more than just "website or electron", and things like vscode prove that they're all viable.

If I remember my history Microsoft was never actually forced to stop integrating IE in their product.

The only reason it stopped being the #1 browser is that Chrome came out and was better...

Even though people had to go out of their way to download on all computers

Only because the whole thing was shut down when administration changed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C...

Nowadays if it wasn't for Safari, thanks to Chrome and Electron garbage, the Web is effectively ChromeOS.

For all its warts, I think old IE is still a better option than Chrome because at the time of its dominance, Microsoft wasn't an ad company interested in collecting every little bit of data about you, nor did it own the dominant search engine. IE was just a browser.

This doesn't get talked about enough.

Microsoft back then was just a software company, they didn't care about your real life. Unfortunately, companies today are a different story.

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