Microsoft Edge market share grew 13x in the past 12 months, overtaking Firefox

Re:Microsoft Edge market share grew 13x in the past 12 month... by EveYoung on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:43AM (#26712369)

I wonder if it would be worth for Google to finance Mozilla regardless of its user base. Just to keep it around as a competitor to Chrome to avoid monopoly issues with regulators.

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Re:Microsoft Edge market share grew 13x in the past 12 month... by gjsman-1000 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:44AM (#26712384)

Google funds Mozilla because of this (keeping them around as puppet competition) and also because of their market share.

However, with browsers like Brave, Edge, and Vivaldi rising and Firefox's market share falling, Google doesn't need Firefox as its puppet much longer to avoid antitrust scrutiny, and Firefox's dwindling share reduces the value of it's userbase and thus the default search engine contract, so I would not be surprised if Google eventually cuts the funding.

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Re:Microsoft Edge market share grew 13x in the past 12 month... by EveYoung on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:11AM (#26712775)

But all those competitors are based on Chromium and therefore not really independent. Not sure if this matters in a potential antitrust suit?

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Re:Microsoft Edge market share grew 13x in the past 12 month... by mc32 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:44AM (#26712378)

My naive guess is that this is why they continue to fund it.

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