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I don't particularly like the manifesto style of this post. The author attempts a hard sell by first admitting that the world needed Chrome and then after it su

I don't particularly like the manifesto style of this post. The author attempts a hard sell by first admitting that the world needed Chrome and then after it succeeded he suggests throwing it to the depths after the wish came true. > Chrome is effectively everywhere you look. And that’s bad news. Why? It's the dream you wanted 10 years ago, but it comes with Google now. Ooops for you if you dislike Google, but the vast majority of people doesn't care. Use Safari, Firefox or anything, but calling out ditching Chrome is for the greater good is ridiculous. H mentions 60% as a dominant position which is not how I would describe it in my dictionary.

MivLives 8y ago
Realistically, would we have cared if IE was everywhere if it wasn't garbage in supporting web standards? I'm not arguing for a lack of competition. It's just that someone needs to be on top of the heap. Might as well be a company that's invested in having their pages load fast rather than an OS maker with no incentive to improve their browser. I wish Google would go back to funding Mozilla like they used to. At one point they were 90% of Mozilla's revenue.
- kowdermeister 8y ago
  > Realistically, would we have cared if IE was everywhere if it wasn't garbage in supporting web standards? No, I would have been perfectly happy if IE was a developer friendly, standards compliant browser, but they created a huge opportunity by ignoring this. I remember when I was super excited for a little floating JavaScript debug tool that you had to include in HTML and you could inspect variables without alerting them. I was amazed by it :) > I wish Google would go back to funding Mozilla like they used to. I think that's still the case: https://www.cnet.com/news/google-firefox-search-deal-gives-mozilla-more-money-to-push-privacy/ https://www.cnet.com/news/google-firefox-search-deal-gives-m...
isostatic 8y ago
> It's the dream you wanted 10 years ago 10 years ago we didn't want a browser monopoly We're worryingly close to having that now.

MivLives 8y ago

Realistically, would we have cared if IE was everywhere if it wasn't garbage in supporting web standards? I'm not arguing for a lack of competition. It's just that someone needs to be on top of the heap. Might as well be a company that's invested in having their pages load fast rather than an OS maker with no incentive to improve their browser. I wish Google would go back to funding Mozilla like they used to. At one point they were 90% of Mozilla's revenue.

kowdermeister 8y ago
> Realistically, would we have cared if IE was everywhere if it wasn't garbage in supporting web standards? No, I would have been perfectly happy if IE was a developer friendly, standards compliant browser, but they created a huge opportunity by ignoring this. I remember when I was super excited for a little floating JavaScript debug tool that you had to include in HTML and you could inspect variables without alerting them. I was amazed by it :) > I wish Google would go back to funding Mozilla like they used to. I think that's still the case: https://www.cnet.com/news/google-firefox-search-deal-gives-mozilla-more-money-to-push-privacy/ https://www.cnet.com/news/google-firefox-search-deal-gives-m...

isostatic 8y ago

> It's the dream you wanted 10 years ago 10 years ago we didn't want a browser monopoly We're worryingly close to having that now.