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MS could have chosen to base their platform on Firefox, but they chose to go with Chromium. We can lament the passing of Edge, but I wonder how people would ha

MS could have chosen to base their platform on Firefox, but they chose to go with Chromium. We can lament the passing of Edge, but I wonder how people would have felt if instead of Edge they just had this announcement as the replacement for IE. Would we have cared? No one seems to miss IE.

O1111OOO 8y ago
> MS could have chosen to base their platform on Firefox... There actually might have been an outcry over this. I'm not aware of any Firefox forks, for example, that aren't focused on privacy. MS would have been the first to fork FF and undo lots of the privacy features in the browser (engine). With Chrome/Chromium, there's a reluctant acceptance of data-harvesting and (unethical) tracking. I wonder if MS gave the above scenario some thought...
pritambaral 8y ago
> MS could have chosen to base their platform on Firefox, but they chose to go with Chromium. MS went with Chromium because they want that implicit "best viewed in Chrome" compatibility.