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>"hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome?" In an ideal world the best browser would win but marketshare doesn't work that
by BitwiseFool 5y ago
>"hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome?"
In an ideal world the best browser would win but marketshare doesn't work that way.
Microsoft has full time development teams working on Edge and it is just barely chipping away at chrome's dominance. And, in no small part because they pester Windows users to make Edge the default at every opportunity.
- kongin 5y agoEdge is a chrome skin. They don't have engineers working on a browser, they have engineers working on a _theme_.
- Lendal 5y agoReally? So every time you bring in a dependency on a library written by someone else, your software is just a theme or wrapper? I guess that's one way to look at it.
- no_time 5y agoif your python assignment is solved by import solution and some additional fluff (tracking,telemetry and other anti features in Edge's case) did you really do your homework?
- hammyhavoc 5y agoDepends who you are turning your homework in to. :- )
- kadoban 5y agoIf you're making a browser and your dependency is a browser...yes.
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- kongin 5y agoYeah, that's why it's called Linux and not Gnu/Linux.
- BitwiseFool 5y agoOh, if the GP meant Chromium the engine, rather than Chrome the browser, that changes things a bit.
- rocketbop 5y agoThat’s the case now but they had their own browser until 2018 backed by considerable resources and still had to put up the white flag.
- dralley 5y ago1. It doesn't really matter. Most users don't even know what a browser engine is much less care, so whether it's a fully independent browser or not is irrelevant to their adoption in the marketplace. 2. The story was no different even when they were still using Trident as their engine.
- kongin 5y agoHaving two large user bases using different engines meant that standards mattered. When 85% of people use the same browser stack we're back in the bad old days of IE6.
- maep 5y agoIt's more than a skin. Microsoft put some effort into optimization, like using a segmented heap allocator.
- jve 5y agoThey actually contribute to chromium. Almost a year old tweet: https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/1329200077517295618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1329200077517295618%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmspoweruser.com%2Fmicrosoft-touts-their-contributions-to-chromium-development%2F https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/1329200077517295618?ref_s...
- rado 5y agoThe EU should take over Firefox, because the impartial web is a crucial part of everyday life.
- maccolgan 5y agoBeing taken over by the EU would make it very far from being a part of an "impartial" web.
- rado 5y agoEU sells user data?
- hammyhavoc 5y agoNo thanks. They would lose even more users if that were to happen.