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Users want to chrome hegemony and don't care about the open web or Firefox. Its the number #1 browser on desktop even though it doesn't come with the OS. Wind
by adrr 3y ago
Users want to chrome hegemony and don't care about the open web or Firefox. Its the number #1 browser on desktop even though it doesn't come with the OS. Windows comes with edge and macs come with safari. Users have to download Chrome.
- j45 3y agoAll browsers so far have come and gone in popularity. Even when it seemed unimaginable.
- Iulioh 3y agoBut today everything but Firefox is Chromium. That's a little different
- warrenm 3y agoAnd 20 years ago everything was IE (at >90% penetration)
- Iulioh 3y agoThe problem is Chromium ,not Chrome Like you have the illusion of choice, that's what I'm talking about and that's different
- j45 3y agoFirefox entered into a contract per-install with Google that did no evil while Google iirc was building their own browser secretly. Browser engines are now open source a lot more than they were. I don’t think it’s about illusion of choice as much as some browsers actively working to degooglify themselves from Chromium and maintain it. Some browsers are maintaining their own forks, others aren’t.