You act as though Safari doesn't have a significant market presence. Safari is not good enough as a bulwark of the free web. It's only available on Apple platf

You act as though Safari doesn't have a significant market presence. Safari is not good enough as a bulwark of the free web. It's only available on Apple platforms and doesn't support ad-blockers as robust as FF. Microsoft developed new web technologies and then patented them What patented web technologies are you thinking of? ActiveX controls? The situation today with Google is markedly different. Sure. Microsoft wanted to lock you into IE and Windows. Google wants to lock you into Chrome and ensure that the web is utterly bent to serve their advertising platform. If you don't understand the massive commonality here -- which, again, is domination and ownership of the web -- because you're focused on implementation details, I don't know what to tell you.