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this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2024
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There was a huge push by a lot of IT and tech based people to get behind and push promotion of Chrome over Firefox and IE. FF had its issues at the time and seemingly everyone trusted Google to no end (ashamedly myself included).
I’m gonna say this really started to happen ~2010 or so.
I wish I could find some of the old Reddit threads and memeing that happened surrounding it all.
Things like this were everywhere:
https://ny02208580.schoolwires.net/Page/5238
^^^Mobile screenshot for posterity^^^