I should have been more specific in what I mean by &quot;IE6 situation&quot;. I was talking mostly about the years 2005-2008 when IE had already won the browser wars and despite a new and better browser (Firefox in this case) already existed, users couldn&#x27;t switch to it (because ActiveX, because VML, ...) and developers couldn&#x27;t [care to] stop using IE-only stuff, because everyone was using IE anyway. The current Chrome situation is more or less the same now.<p>The non-updating users problem is a bit different. I guess it had quite a contribution to the problem discussed above (e.g. if Microsoft had a good mechanism to switch most of IE6 users to 7, they might have made 7 a better - less &quot;compatible&quot; - browser).<p>And Chrome&#x27;s great upgrade mechanism is one of the reasons I think the Chrome situation will be even harder to overcome. IE6 became so old and ridiculously bad that some sites stopped providing first-class user experience to it&#x27;s users, so that users had to do something - upgrade. The same think won&#x27;t probably happen to Chrome, because:<p>1. Google probably remembers Microsoft&#x27;s history and will try to avoid the same mistakes.<p>2. They have an automated mechanism to keep Chrome updated.<p>And as long as they keep gmail and facebook working great in Chrome (and - ideally - worse in every other browser), they are safe.<p>I guess this is even good for the users - uniformly good user experience on all devices. Though - of course - if you don&#x27;t mind exposing every detail of your online life to Google. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uncyclopedia.wikia.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nobody_cares" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uncyclopedia.wikia.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nobody_cares</a>