Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)

Unlike IE, Chrome is still moving forward with new features and depreciating old features.

New features to ensure ads are pervasive and can’t be blocked? How empowering! Advertisers say thanks. Wait, Google is the biggest. How self-serving.

Depreciating old "features" like supporting legacy OS versions which is infuriating. Firefox is an inadequate substitute because too many sites only work in Chrome.

I blame lazy developers for this mess all around, which had caused a perfect storm of shit on the nouveau web.

As a person on a front-end development team that has a “Chrome = success” mandate, it’s not always our decision as to when something ships or for which platforms we are to target. We work on Chrome first and then hope for the time to get things to work elsewhere.

The degree to which Google leadership is capable of fostering innovation of any sort is very much in doubt, but specifically in chrome all they are doing is re-arranging the deck chairs on the titanic while regulators and user preferences tighten the noose on the ad tracking business.

Google is using Chrome and Android to delay privacy rights around the world, that’s it. That’s the whole story.

I've run into exactly zero sites, that don't want to update some firmware on some piece of hardware over usb, that don't work on firefox.

Congratulations.

Maybe in the future in lieu of additional testing, the development team should just check in with you, and if you declare it sunshine and rainbows, ship it.

Maybe in the future you can stop spreading fud about how everything only works in the most consumer hostile browser on the market.