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They have no chance of breaking up Google’s web oligopoly. You could have your own browser and supports everything Chrome does and it still wouldn’t matter. Wha

They have no chance of breaking up Google’s web oligopoly. You could have your own browser and supports everything Chrome does and it still wouldn’t matter. What matters is getting people to use your browser, which is (so far) done in only one of two ways: control an existing platform so you can be the default (iOS, macOS, Windows’s, Android, etc) or spend a ridiculous amount of money on advertising (ex: Chrome on Windows). The implementation of the browser is irrelevant.

okasaki 2y ago
Not true. Firefox rose out of the ashes of Netscape pretty much by word of mouth and nerds installing it on other people's PCs. Another world is possible.
- Klonoar 2y ago
  That worked because IE was a pile of burning trash. Chrome & co are not. It’s a different world.
  - okasaki 2y ago
    Chrome and Firefox are privacy nightmares and everyone knows it.
    - Klonoar 2y ago
      That has zero to do with how well they "just work" for the average user, which wasn't the case with IE6/7 back in the day.
      - wakawaka28 2y ago
        Lots of stuff "back in the day" simply required IE and you just had to have it. And for people who needed stuff to "just work", IE generally did because it was the most popular browser in the world. I don't recall Firefox or Netscape ever being the majority browser.