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Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 by dathinab on Saturday July 31, 2021 @11:02AM (#28018702)
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.

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Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 by dmitriid on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:00PM (#28019815)
> 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

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Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 by dathinab on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:03PM (#28031051)
Maybe I should have called it "industry web standards" to explicitly exclude "google forced web standard"?
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Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 by read_if_gay_ on Saturday July 31, 2021 @11:09AM (#28018769)
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.
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