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[–] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

This whole episode is giving me flashbacks to the ActiveX days.

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The tyranny of the default.

"Here mum, I've installed Firefox for you, it's better than Chrome in every way!"
"My knitting circle website doesn't work, I can't download patterns, it says I need Chrome"

Internet Explorer was effectively abandon-ware for a decade after Microsoft used their OS pseudo-monopoly to crush Netscape.
It took another tech giant abusing THEIR monopoly to relegate IE to the trash heap it should have already been on.