As far as I can tell, most Chrome users are aware of Firefox, IE, or Safari though. So the victory of Chrome isn't manipulative and exploitative -- the browser-wars culture is very different these days. People _choose_ Chrome for the most part.

There is nothing wrong with offering a product that everyone wants to use. That's how Google became big in the first place.

Did you even look at the browser stats link I posted? No browser has a majority usage share anymore.

Do you mean the huge green Chrome bar?

The size of the bar doesn't represent usage. If you hover over, for example, Chrome 39, you will see it has 0.13% of global usage.

If you click the "Usage relative" button, then the bars do resize to reflect usage. The numbers here are based on StatCounter measurements, which show Chrome with a 42% page view share (about 3 times higher than the next most popular browser):

http://gs.statcounter.com/#all-browser-ww-monthly-201311-201...