Re:Ask HN: Is Google Secretly Undermining Firefox?
by fabiomaia on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:23PM
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> There are many ways for them to achieve this outcome without explicitly instructing their developers to degrade FF experience.
Like?
Re:Ask HN: Is Google Secretly Undermining Firefox?
by raquo on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:42PM
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Like what other people mentioned in this thread about prioritization.
It's not hard to justify focusing on the most popular browser (which "so just happens" to be Chrome) over a browser that is less popular and not even a system default on Windows or MacOS.
Devs write bad code, gets fixed only in Chrome. Or devs test only in Chrome from the start because they don't have time to test everywhere and if it doesn't even work in Chrome you get bad looks, so it only works well in Chrome.
Of course there likely won't ever be hard evidence that they are doing this deliberately. There are many ways for them to achieve this outcome without explicitly instructing their developers to degrade FF experience.
They can successfully bullshit most users that way, but for me this is just more reason to use FF more and Google less. I just hope there are enough other people with the same attitude for us to matter.