All new websites were developed to work with Internet Explorer, something which developers do for Chrome today. These days, Chrome enjoys a position of dominance that Internet Explorer once held. Since then, Chrome has gained massive popularity and become the most popular browser in the market. I remember downloading the first beta of Chrome and thinking this is fantastic! What Chrome was lacking in features, it made up in speed. In September 2008, everything changed when Google decided to enter the browser market with Chrome. Normally, when you press the back button in a browser, it will try to reload the page but in Opera the page loaded from cache, so the back action was instant! Google has a say There were many other features that made Opera my go-to browser but the most important for my browsing on a 256 Kbps turned out to be the “Instant-back”. Opera had many differentiated features such as a customizable streamlined user interface as well as being more memory efficient and faster than Firefox. But then one day while browsing through PC World magazine, I discovered an alternate option – Opera. It was either Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. You see back in 2006 as a young technologist, my choices of a web browser were limited. But before I begin this story, I need to take you back to 2006. This article was originally published on my blog living in a golden age of web browser choice.

List of chromium based browsers