Just a reminder that ten years ago Chrome had zero percent market share, and as of today it defeated Internet Explorer .. permanently. The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The second best time is today.

@codinghorror Let's just not feed that tree with more ram ok?

@codinghorror The saddest thing about this is how badly Mozilla missed their chance. For a second time...

@codinghorror @vivaldibrowser is the current plant.

@codinghorror On a different note... A very bad selection of colors on this chart though! Not sure if it's just me, but I can barely tell them apart.

@codinghorror seeing how much Firefox's share has dropped makes me lose hope for this decade's iteration of society.

@codinghorror It kind of killed Firefox in the process too, which is a shame.

@codinghorror That tree was planted by the KDE foundation, then Apple took a cutting and planted a new tree, then Google took a cutting from that.

@codinghorror Just curious why Edge isn't on the chart, or is it lumped in with IE? It would be interesting to see where it fits in.

@codinghorror The key is for a new browser to provide a clear value-add. In the case of Chrome, it was the speed of javascript processing. Provided night and day experience. Any ideas of what features a new browser could provide to differentiate itself?

@codinghorror Why does the chart y-axis only go to 70%? Is it intentional to make it look like chrome has close to 100% market share?

@codinghorror I’m surprised Firefox is as low as it is. Does chrome ship default with android phones?

@codinghorror I started using it at the very beginning, 2008

@codinghorror @mpjme Note. I should definently use firefox.

@codinghorror source?

@codinghorror Little to celebrate about MS ditching IE/Edge, on its race with Chrome. These pervasive corportations can let go if they lose the tech race with other corps, but wont ever let go if the contender is FLOSS, because they can always throw its weight on the race regardless of tech.

@codinghorror What the heck is UC Browser?

@codinghorror Yep. I remember when OSX first came out, my first thought was "yes, this is the right decision, but it is too late"

@codinghorror You got to love V8!

@codinghorror 😲

@codinghorror No Edge?

@codinghorror What's the meaning of the pentagon on the black line at January 2016?

@codinghorror Maybe chrome can use its dominance to cut cpu and memory usage to save some trees? Maybe limit tabs and if users wan to go over that limit warn them they are contributing to global warming 😳

@codinghorror Still just @trueboneio using Opera!

@codinghorror @SimoneBock74 Oh what happened to Firefox scary

@codinghorror CC @Merryweatherey

@codinghorror The best part of this tweet says "The second best time is today"

@codinghorror Especially plant a tree if you also have marketing space on the worlds most visited URL!

@codinghorror Is Edge ‘other’?

@codinghorror Wow

@codinghorror I'd argue they both won. Microsoft is kicking ass lately... Ditching Edge was a great idea.

@codinghorror My version why Google made Chrome: dynamic pages looked differently, how to parse, what to index? Same renderer for the bot as for the users would solve it. It was 1st reason. 2nd was Google Docs: own GUI for own cloud, to make it work.

@codinghorror @le_skwi Thanks Android

@codinghorror I just see that there is definitely a problem displayed on the graph and the problem is growing. No competition means no innovation.

@codinghorror @charliecodes Helped by the rise of Android no doubt.

@codinghorror "From the frying pan, into the fire" - learned today a possible English counterpart of an old and possibly untranslatable Hungarian idiom.