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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by serge2k on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:08PM (#13134328)
> Chrome was created to be a standards based browser

Then why not give money to firefox? Why not start contributing more?

instead they built their own, integrated it with google stuff, and pushed it heavily for years and years.

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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by dekhn on Thursday December 08, 2016 @07:34PM (#13135693)
Google did give money to firefox. Lots and lots of it.

https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-maker-mozilla-we-dont-need...

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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by zardeh on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:34PM (#13134512)
Why not Safari or Opera?

Competition is good. You can make a standards based browser and then add additional features that others can't or won't provide. Building it in house gives them more control. Do you think Mozilla would have developed V8 if google just threw money at them?

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