The "Other Chromes": A Chromium-based browser market analysis
We’re living in a golden age of web browser choice. But before I begin this story, I need to take you back to 2006. You see back in 2006 as a young technologist, my choices of a web browser were limited. It was either Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. But then one day while browsing through PC World magazine, I discovered an alternate option – Opera. Opera had many differentiated features such as a customizable streamlined user interface as well as being more memory efficient and faster than Firefox. There were many other features that made Opera my go-to browser but the most important for my browsing on a 256 Kbps turned out to be the “Instant-back”. Normally, when you press the back button in a browser, it will try to reload the page but in Opera the page loaded from cache, so the back action was instant! ...