Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
by read_if_gay_ on Saturday July 31, 2021 @10:44AM
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Obviously, a private company can do what they want and they shouldn't be forced to make their code run on other platforms.
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No, IMHO they should be forced to comply with web standard and at least try to work with browsers they don't support first class. (Microsoft simply doesn't allow you to open any of their web apps, weather it's for teams or some of their other apps.)
Especially if it involves quasi monopolies.
I.e. the it's a quasi Monopoly of chrome like browsers spear headed by Google and Microsoft.
> No, IMHO they should be forced to comply with web standard
The problem is that they ram whatever internal Chrome APIs they want through standards bodies and call it a standard.
Others just can't keep up: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
Maybe I should have called it "industry web standards" to explicitly exclude "google forced web standard"?
Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
by read_if_gay_ on Saturday July 31, 2021 @11:09AM
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I agree, I should've made clearer I was being sarcastic. The quasi-monopoly thing is often ignored when it comes to Big Tech silencing voices.
Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
by toiletaccount on Saturday July 31, 2021 @06:51PM
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Microsoft got in trouble for less than this in the EU and had to start offering firefox as an option on standard installs.
E: Just saw the /s in parent's grandchild.