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There's a Chrome icon, but no Firefox or Safari or Edge or any other browser. Not even a generic. Can we please stop with the implicit homogenization around Chr

There's a Chrome icon, but no Firefox or Safari or Edge or any other browser. Not even a generic. Can we please stop with the implicit homogenization around Chrome? /rant

nostromo 9y ago
It's open source... Why don't you make one?
- clmckinley 9y ago
  How do you know he didn't, and while he brought up FF, Safari, IE, once he wins that war he will move on to getting his browser icon included.
vntok 9y ago
This is not a conspiracy, you know. There is a reason the set contains a Twitter icon and not a Mastodon icon, a Facebook icon and not a Diaspora* icon, a CodePen icon and not a Dabblet icon, etc. Like it or not, these are the products that the people elected.
- pducks32 9y ago
  Literally never heard of any of these. However I have heard of Safari, Edge, and Firefox. And I don’t think the market share breakdown of twitter vs Mastodon is similar to Chrome vs. Firefox.
  - vntok 9y ago
    It is similar in the sense that one of the two products absolutely crushes their competition in most if not all markets and in most if not all aspects that actually matter to the end users.
    - wongarsu 9y ago
      Chrome has 59% global marketshare on the desktop [1][2]. That's big, but not "crushing competition so much others might as well not exist" big. 1: https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&qpcustomd=0&qptimeframe=Y https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr... 2: https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2017&month=3 https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2017&month=3
consto 9y ago
While I see what you mean, there is compass which is essentially the safari logo, and there is a globe which can be used as a generic browser.
wlesieutre 9y ago
"compass" is identical to the Safari logo
jwilk 9y ago
What's the use case for Chrome icon anyway?
- kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
  Not a good one that's for sure.

There's a Chrome icon, but no Firefox or Safari or Edge or any other browser. Not even a generic. Can we please stop with the implicit homogenization around Chrome? /rant

nostromo 9y ago

It's open source... Why don't you make one?

clmckinley 9y ago
How do you know he didn't, and while he brought up FF, Safari, IE, once he wins that war he will move on to getting his browser icon included.

vntok 9y ago

This is not a conspiracy, you know. There is a reason the set contains a Twitter icon and not a Mastodon icon, a Facebook icon and not a Diaspora* icon, a CodePen icon and not a Dabblet icon, etc. Like it or not, these are the products that the people elected.

pducks32 9y ago
Literally never heard of any of these. However I have heard of Safari, Edge, and Firefox. And I don’t think the market share breakdown of twitter vs Mastodon is similar to Chrome vs. Firefox.
- vntok 9y ago
  It is similar in the sense that one of the two products absolutely crushes their competition in most if not all markets and in most if not all aspects that actually matter to the end users.
  - wongarsu 9y ago
    Chrome has 59% global marketshare on the desktop [1][2]. That's big, but not "crushing competition so much others might as well not exist" big. 1: https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&qpcustomd=0&qptimeframe=Y https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr... 2: https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2017&month=3 https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2017&month=3

consto 9y ago

While I see what you mean, there is compass which is essentially the safari logo, and there is a globe which can be used as a generic browser.

wlesieutre 9y ago

"compass" is identical to the Safari logo

jwilk 9y ago

What's the use case for Chrome icon anyway?

kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
Not a good one that's for sure.