That’s the purpose: Make it increasingly hard for competitors to stay in the competition and to ensure Google stays in this dominant position. You also can’t use your Chromecast with Firefox. Another way to keep people locked in.

Same strategy Microsoft used many years ago e.g. with Office, adding more and more features in such a pace that it becomes very hard for anyone to create a competitor with the same functionality. They are still capitalizing on that.

I use Firefox for everything, works well for my purposes.

> adding more and more features in such a pace that it becomes very hard for anyone to create a competitor with the same functionality

so that's good for the consumer then.

You mean bad.

I would just see it as trying to make a best product and using their expertise to achieve it.

This is exactly why I hate it. They can and will lock people into their ecosystem. I see Firefox only losing to features like this. I love the present tab feature and that too is available only on Chrome. Now I’ve starting using chrome for Meet, but FF everywhere else.

The built in translation on Chrome is what keeps pulling me back :-/

What do you use live captions for?

I am hard of hearing and need captions on everything.