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Chrome needs at least some kind of a fragment of competition to keep them from stagnating. Lord knows neither of the other two (Safari and Edge) are even close

• gsnedders 9y ago
  I don't think stagnating is the risk with Chrome; I think Chrome running too far ahead and shipping things with only high-level buy-in from vendors (but no review of detail, or any plan to implement soon) is a much bigger risk.
  • username223 9y ago
    Chrome is the client side of Google's play to control both client and server on the "Open Web" and, more broadly, to own the surveillance economy.
  • Sylos 9y ago
    Maybe it's me having too high expectations with the amount of stuff Mozilla has been lining up and is releasing right now all within a short timeframe, but to me, it kind of already feels like Chrome is stagnating. There's for example a handful of glaring issues that they just don't seem to care to fix: - Every other month you hear of yet another Chrome extension stealing user data, impersonating another extension etc. - I haven't been keeping up with it, but I don't think they ever bothered to fix the autofill phishing flaw that keeps on being posted here every so often [1]. - Their extension API is missing a few chunks that make it impossible to port NoScript and make ad blocking less effective. - Chrome for Android still doesn't support extensions at all. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13329525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13329525