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Discussion on: Microsoft is building a Chromium based browser! 😲

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Tobias SN

I think it’s gonna be a step forward for the following reasons:

  1. When IE and Edge users switch to it, it means one less browser to support.
  2. Better compatibility overall.
  3. Old grandmas will have a better browser to use.
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Elliot Derhay

IE will still be around haunting us somehow though. I still dread having to occasionally try to get its dev tools open; crashes the browser pretty easily.

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Tobias SN

Honestly, if IE was killed off after IE6-8, the Internet could have improved quite a bit. Too bad it only just happened 3 years ago. If it happened earlier however, It’d surely be pretty much gone by now.

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Elliot Derhay

If a book were written on this topic, maybe it could be called "Tales of a Stubborn Software Company".