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> ...this would have changed the entire web because people would have flocked to Firefox. One cannot compete with those who hold the choke points. Google owned
by paulryanrogers 2y ago
> ...this would have changed the entire web because people would have flocked to Firefox.
One cannot compete with those who hold the choke points. Google owned the Web when they launched Chrome. Microsoft and Apple own desktop and mobile defaults. With three major competitors setting defaults, nagging users, and aggressively developing their browsers, Firefox was doomed.
Only unskippable browser ballots, with random order, and outlawing promotion of owns own browser from a dominant business would help.
- michael9423 2y ago15 years ago, lots of things were possible. Most people were using firefox, it had like 30 or 40% market share.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoOnly because Microsoft was asleep at the switch for years beforehand, allowing Firefox to establish a beachhead. Not long after Chrome launched and mobile phones grew in importance (~2010), Firefox was in steady decline. My argument is that short of ballots and anti-trust enforcement, nothing could have stood against three chokepoint-holding and well resourced competitors.