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The IE 6 to Firefox migration started about 20 years ago. The world of browsers today is _very_ different.

You may not like Google's influence, but they don't hold back technical innovation in the way that Microsoft did with IE 6. Many web designers, me included, spent hours on each project hacking around its CSS bugs and JS drawbacks. I've not had to do that with Chrome, which makes it miles better.

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>You may not like Google's influence, but they don't hold back technical innovation in the way that Microsoft did with IE 6.

No, the problem with Google's huge market share is that they can use their huge market share to push the web in ways that aren't standardized or in most people's best interest. They end up breaking the web.

Example: https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/04/chrome_breaks_web/

Honestly, I'd rather be stuck again with the restrictions IE put on us than the social destruction Google is waging on the internet.

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