I remember when Chrome launched. And the cheers that followed. Finally, someone was doing something about the complete mess that browsers were in.

So "ramming it down the throat of the internet"... not so much. It was eagerly adopted by everyone because the only alternatives at the time were IE (with it's curious off-standard interpretation of... well...everything) and Firefox (which at the time was unusably slow and difficult).

It's a huge shame that we've got to this point with it, because it has been the driving force behind the massive improvement in browsers over the last dozen years. It's like watching an old friend being forced to humiliate themselves to keep a job :(

> I remember when Chrome launched. And the cheers that followed. Finally, someone was doing something about the complete mess that browsers were in.

I never preferred Chrome myself but I welcomed it.

> So "ramming it down the throat of the internet"... not so much.

That was later when they started to add it to Java JRE downloads and what not.

> and Firefox (which at the time was unusably slow and difficult).

I'm kind of impatient with computers but the difference between Firefox and Chrome was always to small for me to care about compared to what I had to let go to move away from Firefox.

> It's a huge shame that we've got to this point with it, because it has been the driving force behind the massive improvement in browsers over the last dozen years.

According to many of us it has also been a driving force behind making the web less cross browser friendly.

> It's like watching an old friend being forced to humiliate themselves to keep a job :(

More like my friend who became boss and started taking advantage of it until finally a number of old friends are speaking out agains him.