Watch this hypnotic visualization of Chrome eating Internet Explorer alive

Dec11

by Sindy Cator on December 11, 2015 at 12:27 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

Internet Explorer was once the king of browsers, controlling more than 50 percent of the market for many years. The release of Firefox in 2002 changed that, but even its prominence didn’t last particularly long. When Google Chrome was released in September of 2008, it started eating both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox alive faster than anyone expected. Now, seven years on from its release, Chrome is used by more than 43 percent of Web users across desktop and mobile, according to Statcounter. This visualization, created by YouTube user Viktor Bohush, beautifully illustrates the domination of Chrome as it slowly took over the…