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Please define "best"? Certainly, it's not the power efficiency. Not memory efficiency either. Performance maybe? But then it's very different from test to test.

Please define "best"? Certainly, it's not the power efficiency. Not memory efficiency either. Performance maybe? But then it's very different from test to test. So, what makes Chromium the best?

stale2002 4y ago
> Please define "best"? Best would be the one that users choose to use, when they are given the option and full power to do so.
- viktorcode 4y ago
  Internet Explorer 6 was dominating the web. Was it best too?
  - stale2002 4y ago
    Did you read the part where I said: "when they are given the option and full power to do so."? Microsoft, just like Apple, engaged in anti-competitive practices that prevented user choice. The solution to both of these situations, is either the courts force apple to allow user choice, just like it forced Microsoft, or for new laws to be created to do something similar.
    - viktorcode 4y ago
      Unlike in Apple's situation, users had the full power of choice of installing a web browser on Windows PCs. They used IE for the same reason people now installing Chrome: it's the browser where the most of the stuff doesn't break.
      - stale2002 4y ago
        You did not address the part where I said "Microsoft, just like Apple, engaged in anti-competitive practices that prevented user choice.". Microsoft was literally brought to court, and a judge said that their practices were anti competitive. So yes, the legal system said that Microsoft was anti-competitive. You should go read up on the court case, because it is an absolutely true fact that a judge ruled that Microsoft engaged in anti-competitive practices. And now there are new laws, in the EU, that will prevent Apple from engaging in anti-competitive practices as well.
- snowwrestler 4y ago
  Users can choose Chrome on their iOS devices. They can even set it as their default browser. Geeks like us know that iOS Chrome is using WebKit to render instead of Blink. But that is not relevant to most users.
  - stale2002 4y ago
    > Users can choose Chrome on their iOS devices. They cannot choose the actual chrome that would be in iOS if it was allowed.
- TingPing 4y ago
  Users choose what is advertised to them.
hwbehrens 4y ago
> "What makes Chromium the best?" I can't speak for the parent, but when most people say this they mean "least likely to break my websites", completely ignoring that this is a symptom, not a cause, of Chrome's dominance. Even my health insurance website breaks in Firefox, and their error message suggests that everyone should just use Chrome. We'll end up back in the early 2000s Internet Explorer situation eventually before the pendulum swings around again.

Please define "best"? Certainly, it's not the power efficiency. Not memory efficiency either. Performance maybe? But then it's very different from test to test. So, what makes Chromium the best?

stale2002 4y ago

> Please define "best"? Best would be the one that users choose to use, when they are given the option and full power to do so.

viktorcode 4y ago
Internet Explorer 6 was dominating the web. Was it best too?
- stale2002 4y ago
  Did you read the part where I said: "when they are given the option and full power to do so."? Microsoft, just like Apple, engaged in anti-competitive practices that prevented user choice. The solution to both of these situations, is either the courts force apple to allow user choice, just like it forced Microsoft, or for new laws to be created to do something similar.
  - viktorcode 4y ago
    Unlike in Apple's situation, users had the full power of choice of installing a web browser on Windows PCs. They used IE for the same reason people now installing Chrome: it's the browser where the most of the stuff doesn't break.
    - stale2002 4y ago
      You did not address the part where I said "Microsoft, just like Apple, engaged in anti-competitive practices that prevented user choice.". Microsoft was literally brought to court, and a judge said that their practices were anti competitive. So yes, the legal system said that Microsoft was anti-competitive. You should go read up on the court case, because it is an absolutely true fact that a judge ruled that Microsoft engaged in anti-competitive practices. And now there are new laws, in the EU, that will prevent Apple from engaging in anti-competitive practices as well.
snowwrestler 4y ago
Users can choose Chrome on their iOS devices. They can even set it as their default browser. Geeks like us know that iOS Chrome is using WebKit to render instead of Blink. But that is not relevant to most users.
- stale2002 4y ago
  > Users can choose Chrome on their iOS devices. They cannot choose the actual chrome that would be in iOS if it was allowed.
TingPing 4y ago
Users choose what is advertised to them.

hwbehrens 4y ago

> "What makes Chromium the best?" I can't speak for the parent, but when most people say this they mean "least likely to break my websites", completely ignoring that this is a symptom, not a cause, of Chrome's dominance. Even my health insurance website breaks in Firefox, and their error message suggests that everyone should just use Chrome. We'll end up back in the early 2000s Internet Explorer situation eventually before the pendulum swings around again.