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Current popular browsers are: * Firefox * Chrome / Chromium * Internet Explorer * Safari * Opera All of them are produced with the aim of benefiting
by jmillikin 14y ago
Current popular browsers are:
* Firefox
* Chrome / Chromium
* Internet Explorer
* Safari
* Opera
All of them are produced with the aim of benefiting their parent corporations in some way -- for example, Mozilla Corp rents the default search engine setting to Google for hundreds of millions per year.
I currently use Firefox and Chromium as my primary browsers, because they are the only popular browsers that are open-source and therefore the only browsers I fully trust. Despite coming from "business entities", neither browser shows me ads, requires me to enter a government-approved name, or requires me to install third-party applications.
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoMozilla Corp was set up by Mozilla Foundation for tax reasons. Firefox is produced with the aim of meeting the foundation's mission.
- asadotzler 14y ago"All of them are produced with the aim of benefiting their parent corporations in some way -- for example, Mozilla Corp rents the default search engine setting to Google for hundreds of millions per year." You've crafted a sentence that will mislead people. Mozilla did not, and does not, make Firefox in order to generate search revenue. Mozilla makes Firefox to directly advance Mozilla's non-profit, public benefit mission to improve the Web. Firefox is not produced with the aim of generating revenue. It never has been and it never will be.
- awakeasleep 14y agoLet's all take a deep breath and contemplate the times when we have been as self-assuredly wrong as the author of the above comment. Here's to civil discussion that shores up the spots in life where we're ignorant.