because the average user is kinda dumb, kinda impatient, and some of those ads and banners on google properties peddling chrome were very scary to them.. that they'd lose, or miss-out on something in, youtube or google or their gmail.
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i just start with the basic rule of: whatever they want or suggest or default to, the opposite is probably what should be configured or answered instead.
youtube, google, gmail. all better platform to market from than your desktop os. plus google spent a ton of money on mainstream ads, and had the perfect place on those aforementioned platforms to peddle their own and at no cost to them. and google is far from innocent here.. they've bullshitted their way to the top of the browser game and pull similar stunts as microsoft does.
and a lot of ie's bits were loaded into memory with windows itself.
but then where would you put the throne?
it's missing the gig of ram usage and thrashing the storage device for the entire duration.
which one?
so that's what's underneath those......
and that's where my 1000s of bookmarks came from.
i hear he's conveniently in possession of a fine turkish-made one now, too.
i had others, but i was listening to my 70s-80s playlist at the time, so this one popped in first.
the others: captain kangaroo, captain ron, cap'n crunch, and captain caveman.
haven't used xvid in like 20 years. do still have some old 'archives' though.