> And yet MSIE still ruled the earth as a major pain in the foot in 2010, with a whooping 40% marketshare
That was largely related to large install bases in corporate/government/educational institutions where legacy requirements (e.g. we built/bought this IE-optimised internal mission-critical web app, and it shits its pants in other browsers).
> It's only when chrome started doing very aggressive advertising that people started to switch.
In 2010 Statcounter and W3 counter both give MSIE ~50% and Firefox ~30%. There was huge shift away from MSIE long before Chrome existed, and longer still before they started using shitty tactics to 'encourage' people to change from other perfectly functioning modern browsers.
That was largely related to large install bases in corporate/government/educational institutions where legacy requirements (e.g. we built/bought this IE-optimised internal mission-critical web app, and it shits its pants in other browsers).
> It's only when chrome started doing very aggressive advertising that people started to switch.
In 2010 Statcounter and W3 counter both give MSIE ~50% and Firefox ~30%. There was huge shift away from MSIE long before Chrome existed, and longer still before they started using shitty tactics to 'encourage' people to change from other perfectly functioning modern browsers.