This article is ahistorical - it was Firefox that first shook IE's dominance. Chrome took over the Firefox niche and finally claimed dominance because it ran so much better, while still meeting web standards.

I develop with Chrome not just because it's the least pain in the ass and has a good ecosystem of tools, but because it adheres to standards. I can't remember the last time I've made a page in Chrome and it didn't work in Firefox or even Edge. It's only weird, non-standard browsers I have to work around.