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Yes, we could just all use Chrome and stop competing. That would be far easier for everyone.
by laserdancepony 4y ago
Yes, we could just all use Chrome and stop competing. That would be far easier for everyone.
- bioemerl 4y agoI mean, relative to having to support safari, yeah, as much as I hate to say it, it's preferable. Firefox is the browser I want to see be the competition.
- kitsunesoba 4y ago> Firefox is the browser I want to see be the competition. Extremely unlikely unfortunately unless the planets align and Google ceases all promotion of Chrome and Mozilla dramatically improves their own promotion game. Firefox would probably need more tangible reasons for people to switch too, because realistically the masses aren't going to care about the privacy or marketshare angles.
- newaccount74 4y agoGoogle keeps showing alerts in their products (eg. Gmail) telling people to download Chrome. I don't see how Mozilla could "improve their promotion game" to stand up to that.
- bioemerl 4y agoPipe dream, but Firefox could be installed by default on iOS devices and Apple could invest a lot of money into Mozilla as a partnership.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoMozilla can't stand up to that, which is why I mentioned that Google would need to cease all promotion of chrome (including cross-promotions in other Google products). But that alone wouldn't suffice. From what I've seen of Mozilla's efforts to promote Firefox, they don't have any idea of how to appeal to the broader audience, or really any audience beyond the privacy-conscious. That Firefox allows better control of one's data is great but it's not nearly enough to carry most people past the friction point of switching browsers. For that you need things like major advantages in battery life and features that fix common web browsing annoyances.
- realusername 4y agoIs Safari really competing anyways? They don't need to do any effort being bundled and it's very visible