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The battle of browsers and their companies continue
- 20 Aug 2025
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- 3 min read
Table Contents
Browsers are a massive piece of software hard to maintain, ECMA is massive it is updated in a path, even mircrosoft gave up having their own Internet Explorer and made their
We use them every day but there are really few companies that are advancing it
It is retrocompability is nuts, since html
Your browser format compatibility may be more than any software in your computer, from images, video, pdf and other formats.
Journey
Back in the 2000s, when I was a kid I started using the maybe most hated of all of time Internet Explorer (IE) and sometimes in the school they have Firefox, IE was so annoying you will end up with hundreds of tabs staggered in on top of the other. Then Chrome appeared on the marked and got popular, around the 2010s, I switched ot Chrome as most of the Millenials did at that time, it was a big leap from IE as it look to get rid of the annoying tabs row and have a much imporved UI, on top you have the themes. On 2012 Google’s Broswer surpassed IE on market share. Many years later on, I started with Linux and started using more Firefox, although a few months later I got a MacBook as daily driver and was only using Safari, at that time and what I was using the browser for […]