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Why exactly? I honestly do not understand HN fascination with Firefox. Firefox isn't even in the top 3 browsers anymore and has about the same Marketshare as Sa
by jjcon 4y ago
Why exactly? I honestly do not understand HN fascination with Firefox. Firefox isn't even in the top 3 browsers anymore and has about the same Marketshare as Samsung internet. It is irrelevant at this point. Blink is the standard for rendering now just as Linux is the standard for web servers.
- ajdude 4y ago> Firefox isn't even in the top 3 browsers anymore and has about the same Marketshare as Samsung internet This is precisely the issue. The fact that Google has such a mass control over Internet rendering means that they are free to write their own standards with absolutely no pushback. It is essentially an Internet explorer situation, whereas if Google wants something to work a certain way, you have no choice but to adapt it least certain websites won’t work. I don’t think a single commercial entity — let alone one with such a disastrous privacy record whose primary source of income is advertising — should be able to strongarm the Internet like it currently can.
- encryptluks2 4y agoIf Firefox wasn't so sluggish maybe more people would use it.
- yangcheng 4y ago
- pipeline_peak 4y agoThat’s a big if, Mozilla has been declining for a long time. They don’t have the funding to progress their aging codebase. Firing everyone in the name of Wokeness hasn’t helped.
- zdragnar 4y agoGlobally, Safari is #2 on mobile, and in the US specifically, #1. Even on desktop, Safari has a fairly strong showing. Apple and Mozilla have basically just swapped places when it comes to keeping developers in check wrt adopting chrome-only features. I don't know that more people using FF would change much at this point, to be honest.
- jjcon 4y ago> This is precisely the issue. The fact that Google has such a mass control over Internet rendering means that they are free to write their own standards with absolutely no pushback. It is an open source community driven project with contributions from, "Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Opera Software, Adobe, Intel, IBM, Samsung, and others" There are so many stakeholders, it isn't just google dictating what occurs in blink
- ayushnix 4y ago> Why exactly? I honestly do not understand HN fascination with Firefox. Well, for starters, uBlock Origin works as intended on Firefox as opposed to Chromium and this will become more apparent with manifest v3. I don't know about others but I also like how Firefox lets me choose the fonts that I want to see on the web while Chromium browsers don't.
- blacklion 4y ago> Blink is the standard for rendering now just as Linux is the standard for web servers. It is THE problem. Software should not be "standard".