Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative
by kitsunesoba on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:21PM
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Not really, no. Marketshare is currently split roughly 3% Firefox, 18.7% Safari, 78.3% Chromium variants (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, etc). If Firefox disappeared almost nothing would change, which is not good. Ideally Firefox's share should at least equal Safari's so developers can't ignore it with impunity, and in a perfect world it'd be split evenly three ways so Google can't steamroll through when Mozilla and Apple disagree with them.
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Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative
by Gigachad on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:23PM
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Safari is going to drop big time when alt browsers become mandated on iOS by the EU. We will have chrome and chrome forks only.
Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative
by kitsunesoba on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:13PM
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I too think that unfortunately, this is what will happen. There's practically no chance of Firefox for iOS making significant headway.
The only silver lining is that this might land Google in an antitrust lawsuit that forces them to spin Chromium and Blink off into a Mozilla-like nonprofit with wholly independent leadership, which is about the best outcome possible in a single-web-engine world.