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How long before Firefox is considered a niche browser by Google and banned? I'll start holding my breath. It won't be long especially if we, as tech users, cont
by mnm1 7y ago
How long before Firefox is considered a niche browser by Google and banned? I'll start holding my breath. It won't be long especially if we, as tech users, continue to promote Chrome to the rest of the world like it isn't the cancer it has grown into.
- seabrookmx 7y agoGoogle funds Mozilla by paying to be their default search engine. I think we'd see that deal cancelled before Google dropped support for Firefox.
- PretzelFisch 7y agoHow would that matter to google though? Better to push the user directly into chrome and then the rest of Google offerings then share ad revenue.
- reaperducer 7y agoGoogle funds Mozilla by paying to be their default search engine. Until it is no longer in Google's interest to do so.
- paulryanrogers 7y agoNo always though. At times and in some markets it has been others like Yahoo
- mnm1 7y agoYup and it'd be easy for them to do so. They could also just keep FF funded with a low market share to pretend like they don't want to get rid of it in the same way that large companies donate to different causes to pretend like they are not the ones causing the essential problems that they are donating to fix in the first place.