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Re:DRM enabled Google to have an open source browser still u... by fenwick67 on Thursday May 30, 2019 @01:07AM (#20048565)
Chrome beating Firefox in marketshare is not a technical problem, it's a marketing problem.

Google owns the largest digital advertising platform in the world and controls the most popular consumer OS, it's hard to beat that reach.

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Re:DRM enabled Google to have an open source browser still u... by robocat on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:52AM (#20048969)
Regardless of marketing, Chrome is and was still better than Firefox technically.

And Chrome beating Edge and Safari is technical, not marketing. If iOS wasn't closed (Apple's market advantage), would Safari be dominant there?

Mozilla had us up to 2010 because Firefox was a better browser.

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Re:DRM enabled Google to have an open source browser still u... by sct202 on Thursday May 30, 2019 @09:56AM (#20051144)
Safari has an upper limit on market-share though because it can only be on iOS or Macs. Looking thru my website's stats, it looks like Safari has the overwhelming majority of iOS users and about half on Macs, and from experience Safari is faster than Chrome on old iOS devices.
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Re:DRM enabled Google to have an open source browser still u... by fenwick67 on Thursday May 30, 2019 @08:42AM (#20050539)
> Chrome is and was still better than Firefox technically

I'd really like to see how you came to this conclusion. I hate to be a fanboy but I don't really notice any performance difference between the two in daily use, except in some webGL demos.

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Re:DRM enabled Google to have an open source browser still u... by glandium on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:12AM (#20048814)
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20038013
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Re:DRM enabled Google to have an open source browser still u... by robocat on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:45AM (#20048944)
Firefox could be collateral damage.

Google fought dirty back against Microsoft. Microsoft pulled very dirty tactics to ram Edge down the gullets of Windows users. Google used the same tactics as used by a large percentage of installers on Windows: business as usual?

Or Google actually supported Windows 7 users, because Microsoft wouldn't. Maybe Google really needed a browser that worked and was secure on Windows 7 (not Internet explorer).

Microsoft owned the APIs to their OS yet Chrome beat them on their own turf - ouch!

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