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> 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
by ajdude 5y 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 5y agoIf Firefox wasn't so sluggish maybe more people would use it.
- yangcheng 5y ago
- pipeline_peak 5y 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 5y 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 5y 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