[HN Gopher] Ask HN: How do you feel about Chrome becoming a brow...
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Ask HN: How do you feel about Chrome becoming a browser monopoly?
With Firefox losing more and more ground with each passing year,
how do you feel about Chrome getting (even more) of a monopoly
worldwide? Should we start pushing harder for people to use
Firefox?
Author : tribejri
Score : 6 points
Date : 2022-04-23 21:54 UTC (1 hours ago)
| McLaren_Ferrari wrote:
| Same as I felt when the government said Microsoft had a browser
| monopoly.
|
| They (Microsoft and Google) both got to this point fair and
| square by providing ease of use and quality of life to the
| consumer.
|
| Monopolies happening due to competence, great execution or even
| luck are not a problem.
|
| People should be not alarmed by corporate monopolies as long as
| Federal govt. retains monopoly of B2 bombers (and violence in
| general) the latter always retains the capability to disrupt a
| corporate monopoly.
| runjake wrote:
| Microsoft's monopoly was anything but fair. They did all sorts
| of shady, anti-competitive things WRT browsers, Windows, and
| Linux.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...
| .
| McLaren_Ferrari wrote:
| > "The issue central to the case was whether Microsoft was
| allowed to bundle its flagship Internet Explorer (IE) web
| browser software with its Windows operating system".
|
| Netscape wanted to make money selling the browser, time has
| proved they were way wrong in their calculus as consumers are
| not willing to pay for a browser.
|
| Hence it comes with the OS to give to the consumer the
| capability to go on the internet as soon as they turn on
| their computer for the first time.
|
| Time also proved that browsers are not where the money is,
| search and social media is. Netscape missed search and made
| Microsoft miss search too due to he DOJ lawsuit, but it's a
| poor consolation given where Microsoft is today and where
| Netscape is today.
|
| So Netscape was completely delusional, they went to cry to
| the feds, Microsoft got distracted defending themselves from
| the aforementioned feds and Google and Facebook benefited the
| dispute.
| rossdavidh wrote:
| I still use Firefox primarily, and Brave on my phone, but I don't
| like the way things are headed. I don't know if "pushing" will
| change much. Firefox probably needs to be better on data security
| and adblocking in a way which Google is unwilling to match?
| llimos wrote:
| Generally not great, but there are advantages to using something
| different to everyone else. For example, a lot of paywalled sites
| can be bypassed using Firefox's reader mode, and it's not worth
| the sites' effort to try and block it.
| Shadonototra wrote:
| firefox had its chance, they decided to raise the salary of their
| CEO instead of investing in the browser
|
| at least google improves chrome year after year
| kurupt213 wrote:
| Chrome is malware
| trinovantes wrote:
| Not great. When standards become whatever Google feels like it is
| due to their market share, you end up breaking the web for users
| outside of Chromium
|
| I've recently found out that Firefox/Chrome treats viewport sizes
| differently when zooming in/out. Which one is correct behavior? I
| have no idea nor am I interested in digging through pages of RFCs
| so I just ended up doing a user-agent check and use logic per
| browser.
| wetpaws wrote:
| I'm not afraid of Google, but I'm afraid of inevitable
| monoculture and stagnation
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