> Chrome completely dominated them on the simple basis that it was _really fast_.
It isn't that simple - a lot of Chrome's success came because they "made it work" in ways that Firefox (horribly wasteful of CPU, memory, battery life) and IE (shambles in every department) didn't. Also helped in large part by having an enormous web monopoly pushing it and favouring it for their properties.
But you're definitely right that it came after them.
> Yes, it performed way better than Firefox, which is exactly my point.
No, you specifically called out the speed and speed only - "on the simple basis that it was _really fast_" - nothing about it working right in other areas (which are the ones that grabbed people, not the speed.)
It isn't that simple - a lot of Chrome's success came because they "made it work" in ways that Firefox (horribly wasteful of CPU, memory, battery life) and IE (shambles in every department) didn't. Also helped in large part by having an enormous web monopoly pushing it and favouring it for their properties.
But you're definitely right that it came after them.