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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by zeepzeep on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:25AM (#30344373)
> Firefox generally tends to lag behind Chrome when it comes to new APIs/web features

Sometimes that is because chromium just implements anything they want and it's not in the spec.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by StillBored on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:42PM (#30350794)
And this is one of those places where FF could break with the pack. Sure implement webGL/usb/whatever but provide a simple browser and page enable/disable function for those people who aren't interested in having random websites sending rogue mining code to their GPUs, or various other API's that have questionable merit if you goal is a simple browser API/surface/function.
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