![]() With the advent of smartphones, Microsoft lost the browser game as Safari in iOs and Chrome in Android started to rule the roost. So Chromium became the new base on which many modern browsers evolved, including Amazon’s fireTV browser and the modern Edge Browser, which succeeds IE in the Microsoft Windows landscape. With sandboxing abilities in each tab, this new browser experience was par excellence. Later, Google released the Chrome browser and open-sourced its core as Chromium. ![]() Still, IE loomed amongst the technologically challenged. ![]() Constant freezing of IE and the infamous blue screen of death that accompanied IE freezes in Windows assured that people went straight to download Firefox if at all they knew a little bit of technology. Then from its ashes came Mozilla Firefox, supported heavily in cash by Google and other players. Though the legal tangle at last held neutrality atop, Navigator had breathed its last by the time the judgement came. It was also Microsoft’s choice in Windows ME, 7 and 8 and they pushed it even in some versions of Windows 10.īy the sheer force of vendor partiality, the Internet Explorer dethroned Netscape Navigator while the Internet was transferring to Web 2.0. It was the default browser in Windows 95, 98 and XP. Internet Explorer debuted on Windows desktop computers in 1995 and, by 2004, had cornered 95% of the market. A year ago, Microsoft announced that they would put IE to rest on June 15, 2022, and that day has come. The ubiquitous crappy browser Internet Explorer will meet the dust starting today.
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