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>I would be amazed if we were talking Firefox, but Google pushes Chrome down your throat pretty hard.

Exactly. IIRC, every time you use Google, Gmail or Youtube, from any non-Chrome browser, you get ads like "Everything works better on Chrome, wanna try it?" shoved in your face every step of the way.

So no surprise Chrome owns the web when Google owns the most visited websites in the world.

IIRC Google intentionally had a weird non-standard <div> placed in Youtube that would break rendering under old non-chromium Edge to hurt user experience and to force Edge users to Chrome which AFAIK was the straw that broke the camel's back and forced Microsoft to throw in the towel and move new Edge onto Chromium as it is today.



> IIRC Google intentionally had a weird non-standard <div> placed in Youtube that would break rendering under old non-chromium Edge to hurt user experience and to force Edge users to Chrome which AFAIK was the straw that broke the camel's back and forced Microsoft to throw in the towel and move new Edge onto Chromium as it is today.

Yeah, you're right, they did do that[0]. Just posted about this in another comment.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18148736/google-youtube-...




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