It's worse, because this time there is no hope on the horizon.

cloudwizard · on Aug 30, 2020

When IE6 was king, there was no hope on horizon. IE6 came out in 2001, Chrome did not come out until 2008.

mc32 · on Aug 30, 2020

Mozilla was there.

ineedasername · on Aug 30, 2020

I'm guessing them mean in terms of anything likely to actually unseat IE. Netscape->Mozilla->Firefox had been around years and were still only minor players ~20% market share. Chrome on the other hand saw nearly instant hockey-stick growth. I remember I switched almost instantly after a quick try and everything was so much faster.

n1vz3r · on Aug 30, 2020

How about Netscape communicator (I used it since 2003), then Firefox (first release was in 2004)?

int_19h · on Sept 3, 2020

There was Opera, as well.

But with all of these, you constantly ran into IE-only websites. Which got away with it because most people were running IE.

And that's why people are saying that Chrome is the new IE - because we're seeing that history repeating, with websites written only for and tested only on Chrome and Safari (and I doubt Safari would be anywhere if it weren't effectively forced onto iOS users).