Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25% share

Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by simula67 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:20AM (#13548984)

These type of comments are useless to anyone who does not already agree with you. Point out how. Include examples and data

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by flukus on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:55AM (#13549105)

Because no private company should have that much control, we've been down that path and it was bad enough I thought it should be obvious.

Then there's things like adding DRM, a user hostile "feature" google shoved down our throats. Visit netflix on a linux box and you'll discover that "works with chrome" is the new "works with IE".

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by seanp2k2 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:46AM (#13549321)

It works in Ubuntu. Maybe I'm missing your point. It didn't used to work on Linux at all, without jumping through a ton of hoops pretending to not be Linux.

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by gcp on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:58AM (#13549382)

It only works if your browser claims to be Chrome. (That's how you can get it working in Firefox, too)

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by flukus on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:00AM (#13549388)

The point is you should never have had to pretend, web browsers shouldn't contain DRM. It's not working for me on arch.

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Re:Microsoft's browsers return to losing habits, fall to 25%... by pjmlp on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:37AM (#13549538)

And Flash Ads were easy to turn off instead of the pile of workarounds we have to use nowadays with JavaScript ads.

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