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>>23908054
That's only one piece of the puzzle from Chrome. That's actually the primary reason Firefox gained popularity, but even most people still wouldn't go out of their way to switch to Firefox just because IE was shit.

>>23908030
>This isn't counting android devices and stuff because they're counted as mobile, right?
That chart is ambiguous, but this one from the same source (Statcounter) includes Safari and Chrome on mobile.

>Hold up, why the christ are so many people using chrome?
1. From release through most of the 2010s, Blink-based browsers (using Chrome or Chrome's web engine) were the most responsive and performant browsers for end user experience. Power users who were not dependent on certain addons or settings in Firefox migrated to Chrome early on for this reason. Also, this was still a time when most power users were still hyped about new Google products, and where the name carried an overwhelmingly positive reputation.

2. Google advertised the browser on their platforms, immediately giving it much more visibility to the layman than Firefox ever had. Also, the installer itself was innovative in being a very quick initial download which didn't require much input from the user, which probably kept people from stopping partway.

3. Later on, Google began an aggressive campaign to bundle chrome with prebuilt PCs and the installers of popular applications, where it would often be set as the default browsers automatically. At that point, most people couldn't be arsed to switch back to IE as long as Chrome worked. Unfortunately, that's what was probably most effective on the desktop.

4. Google ported Chrome to android in 2013, and it quickly became the default android browser on most phones, which is still the case. And mobile became the dominant device for internet browsing.

5. Through a combination of market majority and a good development environment, Chrome became the standard from webdevs, which led to other browsers slowly becoming less performant/compatible with newly developed websites, forcing the hand of those who had continued to use IE or an outdated browser throughout all of this.