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Re:A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla by TeMPOraL on Monday April 15, 2019 @08:06AM (#19664711)
Why? Remember that at this point, Google Docs is "sticky". Its audience is to some degree captive, and won't switch just because the document lags a bit on Firefox. What would they switch to? Office365, for which they have to pay? It wouldn't even solve their problem, as the document in question is a link they got from a friend, already in Google Docs. It's just easier to switch to Chrome.

Most of SaaS applications operate in this regime - they own user data, so they become "sticky" and non-substitutable very quickly. On the other hand, standardization of browser features makes browsers not very "sticky". This way, when a SaaS - any SaaS, not just Google's - works much better on Chrome than on Firefox, this drives adoption of Chrome by that much.

Re:A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla by frosted-flakes on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:29PM (#19670665)
Online Office 365 is free and has more or less the same functionality as Google Docs.
Re:A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla by TeMPOraL on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @06:21AM (#19672416)
Doesn't help you if someone else already made the document on Google Docs and asked you to collaborate on it.