Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by treis on Sunday June 02, 2019 @01:29PM (#20076776)

>If there's a single implementation, and the gatekeepers are majority from one company, standards and interoperability become irrelevant.

That's a good thing. What's the point of maintaining four separate software projects who's ideal purpose is to literally do the exact same thing. It's much better to settle on one open source project. If we think Google is the boogeyman then settling on a Chromium fork is still light years better than what we have now.

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Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by feanaro on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:11PM (#20087050)

I think this is incredibly shortsighted. From a programming perspective, large codebases are a bit like complex organisms and experience a sort of evolution. Forcing yourself into a single local minimum in the form of a single browser implementation guarantees that it will be much harder to avoid having the same constant set of strengths and flaws.

The common ground is the standard not the browser implementation. The web has been working well and is still working well with multiple implementations.

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Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Fi... by vinceguidry on Sunday June 02, 2019 @10:10PM (#20079885)

Forom a technical standpoint it's of course unideal, but from a governance standpoint there's a lot to be gained. The browser is a critical piece of infrastructure and handing a monopoly to one company is essentially sleeping at the wheel. As long as there's significant economic value in providing the platform, competition is in the public interest.

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