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Google has funded Firefox since before Chrome was created. At that time Firefox was an important way to protect against Microsoft, which is able to use Internet
by richdougherty 9y ago
Google has funded Firefox since before Chrome was created. At that time Firefox was an important way to protect against Microsoft, which is able to use Internet Explorer to funnel traffic to Bing.
Now that Google has Chrome, I suppose the situation is a bit more nuanced. I imagine that for Google a Firefox install is still preferable to a Safari or Internet Explorer install. Also I suspect that Mozilla will often (although not always) be an ally to Google on web standards committees. Google (as the main web search engine) has a strong interest in growing the capabilities of web browsers and the web generally (vs other proprietary alternatives).
- ForHackernews 9y ago> Google (as the main web search engine) has a strong interest in growing the capabilities of web browsers and the web generally (vs other proprietary alternatives). Is that true? Google's AMP initiative seems like a precursor to building their own walled garden.
- azernik 9y agoAMP is pretty anti-walled-garden. It's specifically a way of getting the advantages of centralization (performance standards, caching by a central server) while making that the same advantages are available to competitors (see e.g. Twitter's use of AMP: https://searchengineland.com/twitter-ramps-amp-278300 https://searchengineland.com/twitter-ramps-amp-278300)