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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by Brakenshire on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:14PM (#30336791)
The obvious thing to do was continue to invest in Servo. If they could have produced a parallel layout engine, which could provide app like animations without fiddling on desktop and Android, and then make that easy to embed, they could have made real inroads into blink/webkit.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by ameminator on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:55PM (#30337366)
You're absolutely right. The fact that so many other browsers are based on chromium, is a blatant condemnation of how the Servo engine has not met an important demand. If Servo was properly useable outside of Firefox, we would have seen more open-source browsers use it.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by hackerfromthefu on Monday February 14, 2022 @04:41PM (#30338773)
Yeah but Mozilla has been subverted, since the current CEO got on they are a lightning rod for Google against browser monopoly legal attention, while trying everything possible to neuter them from being a real threat.

Thus she cut the thing most likely to provide a real threat to chrome.

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