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Re:Goodbye Mozilla by coldtea on Thursday June 29, 2017 @03:02AM (#14661335)
>2) For a comparatively new OS (Android is ~10 years old, modern Desktop OSes being 30+) people browsing the web directly are going to stick to the default. They're going to downloads apps for things their phone doesn't already do; for webpages, it already has an app for that. Android Browser is the "Blue e" here.

And yet Firefox, for a period of time, had trumped IE on Windows. And of course, Chrome trumps IE on Windows today.

Besides, the "age of the OS" doesn't matter -- the age of the users does, and younger users tend to be even more savvy and favorable of third party browsers.

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Re:Goodbye Mozilla by nwah1 on Thursday June 29, 2017 @06:54AM (#14662185)
Microsoft dropped the ball so badly in the IE6 days that the difference between IE and Firefox was enormous, in terms of performance, stability, and features.

Android's browser was never in a position quite that bad.

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