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> years doesn't have long to live the market share is really worrying but OTOH Mozilla just secured another multi year deal with Google so in the short-medium
by The_Colonel 6y ago
> years doesn't have long to live
the market share is really worrying but OTOH Mozilla just secured another multi year deal with Google so in the short-medium term they are fine financially. I hope that a reason for all those projects cuts is at least partially creation of finacial reserves, in theory they do have enough cash and momentum to stay technologically relevant for at least 10 years.
- josh2600 6y agoGoogle needs Firefox to exist for anti-trust reasons. If they don’t buy fire fox’s traffic, bing will.
- Nuzzerino 6y agoIsn't that the very definition of a "trust"?
- ivancho 6y agoNot according to some very well-paid lawyers, so I guess no.
- shultays 6y agoI always wondered if firefox would actually change default engine if google stops the cash. It would remove some chunk of users at least imo, can firefox really afford it?
- pseudalopex 6y agoThey switched to Yahoo for a while.
- sjwright 6y agoThey’d change the default for fresh profiles but they wouldn’t dare overwrite existing installs. The former is a minor nuisance that would only cause minor grumbling but not affect market share. The latter would be actively hostile and cause significant loss of trust.
- Dylan16807 6y agoI think last time if you were still on default you moved to the new default. But it's hard to find a definitive record.
- zaphirplane 6y agoSafari and edge are enough, I doubt google needs Firefox as a competitor like gates needed Apple (and injected funds)
- Reelin 6y agoI thought Edge was now a paint job over Chrome?
- Zenbit_UX 6y agoSo is Safari, there's only really two engines now, Chrome (Edge, Safari, Opera, Brave, et al) and Firefox (Tor).
- Eupolemos 6y agoI'm going off the top of my head here, but you can watch Netflix in 1080p (and 4K I believe, I only have a 1440p monitor) on Edge, to see up to 1080 in chrome or FF you need an extension with 4K not being possible. I don't know if it is a tech-issue or legal, but since it can be fixed with an extension, I guess it's tech?