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Safari is possibly the biggest competitor to chrome, since Firefox is falling out of use. It’s important for the ecosystem to have a strong competitor who isn’t

Safari is possibly the biggest competitor to chrome, since Firefox is falling out of use. It’s important for the ecosystem to have a strong competitor who isn’t dependent on google

candiddevmike 4y ago
Safari is only a competitor because folks don't have a choice. This would force Apple to actually compete against Chrome by giving users a reason to keep using Safari.
- tgv 4y ago
  You know what Google is doing with Chrome, right? Adding APIs for battery status, USB access, etc. will lead to more information about your device ending up in their possession.
  - solarkraft 4y ago
    Aren't these APIs opt-in? Web USB certainly asks you before doing anything.
moonchrome 4y ago
>It’s important for the ecosystem to have a strong competitor who isn’t dependent on google Why ? Seriously - this competition argument gets brought up and I see 0 benefit. There is almost no innovation in the low level aspects and the foundations are opensource with several tech giants contributing. The only thing "competition" adds at this point is fragmentation, compatibility issues and slower feature adoption. This idea that competition beats cooperation is silly - innovation in browser rendering and JS engines is mostly done - the only real innovative effort was Servo and that died - modern variants are there just for political/commercial reasons. If every browser out there converted to Blink/V8 and development resources were focused the web would be better.
koshnaranek 4y ago
I get the impression that firefox is regaining lost users lately