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"WhatsApp Web requires Chrome or Opera"

"Google Inboxbeta only works in Chrome"

I’d say things are just as bad as before

True, but that's because whatever site can choose to rely on a cutting edge specced feature that the other browsers haven't implemented yet. At least it's not the 4 different companies trying to one-up each other.

But that’s what previous browser wars also were about: one browser implements experimental technology, all websites target it, etc.

Chrome has become the new IE in the meaning that it supports weird special stuff, but sometimes not the official W3C definition, and webapps rarely work on multiple browsers.

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