Ask HN: Where do you see Firefox going?

Re:Ask HN: Where do you see Firefox going? by sillycross on Monday September 13, 2021 @05:24AM (#28509308)

IMO browser is a tool, just like operating system. The ultimate praise of a tool is "it works". For browser this means rendering every web page correctly, and for OS this means working on every hardware configuration correctly.

So if we already have a working tool, why do we want to spend the redundant work to invent more tools that solves the same problem, or to maintain the other tools so they are all standard-compliant?

Of course, it's a different story if the existing tool is monopolized by a commercial company. But Chrome is open sourced, and there is a committee steering the future Web standards.

So imo we don't need another Chrome, just like we don't need another Linux.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you see Firefox going? by CRConrad on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @05:38AM (#28522294)

> So imo we don't need another Chrome, just like we don't need another Linux.

With your preceding reasoning you don't need Linux either, since Windows already exists.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you see Firefox going? by sillycross on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:59PM (#28533775)

As already mentioned, the difference is that Windows is monopolized by a commercial company, is not open-sourced and does not accept outside contribution.

You may also be interested by MS Edge's decision to abandon their ChakraCore engine, which is similar to what I reasoned above [1]

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...

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