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Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by SimonPStevens on Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:09AM (#14460880)
Thousands of developers who probably also support 10's of thousands of family member's PCs and can just quietly switch the defaults.

The price for me doing tech support for free on your laptop is the default browser gets switched to Firefox and Chrome gets uninstalled :-)

Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by TremendousJudge on Thursday June 01, 2017 @11:44AM (#14461256)
And a week later Chrome is back to being the default, since Google pushes it like it was malware. They learned a lot from toolbar installers
Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by wutbrodo on Thursday June 01, 2017 @02:08PM (#14462831)
Eh, I'd rather not force my views onto people, against their interests, without their knowledge or consent. That strikes me as pretty dishonest.

I use both Firefox and Chrome pretty regularly, but I'm under no illusions that the quality of Firefox isn't quite a bit lower in multiple very concrete ways for my day-to-day usage (presumably because Mozilla has less resources than Google).

In the past, I have switched family members to a _better_ browser, but I'm talking about IE6 to Firefox, the usability gap between which was 1) in favor of the switched-to browser and 2) waaaayyy bigger than Firefox v Chrome in 2017. Even then, if I had to make that same decision again today, I would probably first convince the person whose computer I was modifying. Especially for non-technical users, having things suddenly change out from under you can be really jarring in an environment that's already pretty confusing.