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I recently had to pull out MS Edge again for a site that was trying to get too fancy in Chrome (I didn't dig into it too far but my guess is that it was trying to do stuff for iOS Safari and caught Chrome by mistake) and I'm pleasantly surprised how much better Edge 13 is than IE 11.

It's still not good enough for me to switch away from Chrome for day-to-day use, mostly because all of my habits are centered around Chrome's UI, but Edge is a surprisingly respectable browser now.

But thinking about browsers has me reflecting back on the days of the Browser Wars. From IE2 to IE4, the battle between IE and Netscape (a Mozilla browser, Firefox's ancestor) was really heated, and which browser was better largely depended on which sites you were visiting because they were optimizing in different directions. But when IE 5.5 was released, it was FANTASTIC compared to Netscape.