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It's a bit scary how much power do browser creators wield. Even if it's being used for good.
by praptak 10y ago
It's a bit scary how much power do browser creators wield. Even if it's being used for good.
- galdosdi 10y agoIt's better than it used to be. We have 4 major browser vendors now, Apple (Safari and iOS), Microsoft, Google (Chrome and Android), and Mozilla, all of which have plenty of market share and none of which have most of it. There was a long period of many years when IE was king and anything else was irrelevant. There was also, even earlier than that, a period where Mosaic/Netscape/Mozilla and its kin were dominant. This is the best it's been in a long time in terms of no single browser maker controlling the market.
- yuhong 10y agoIndeed, there was a set of roots IE 5.01/NT4 SP6/Win2000 and later trusted, and at that time only XP did automatic root cert update making them very valuable. Just before then, I think IE/SChannel only trusted VeriSign/Thawte/CyberTrust, and VeriSign bought Thawte just after IE 5.01 and NT4 SP6 was released.
- mayoff 10y agoIt will be interesting to see what happens when a Chrome user can't access his bank web site because of this, and the bank tells her to switch to Firefox/IE/Safari.