Re:EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bun...
by crickey on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:00PM
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As far as i know Opera and Firefox are doing fine. Kind of ironic in a thread about antitrust people still peddle this idea of needing full market dominance to be considered successful.
Re:EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bun...
by alexvoda on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:59PM
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The Opera GP was talking about is dead, it is now just a skin on top of Chromium. And Firefox, the only alternative to the WebKit/Blink monopoly today, has a tiny market share compared to its peak. They are definitely not doing fine.
Re:EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bun...
by lp0_on_fire on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:18PM
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Opera was a _great_ browser back in its day. They had tabbed browsing before anyone (as far as I remember). The Presto engine was fast and lightweight. Overall it was a pleasure to use. I was real sad when they decided to abandon Presto and adopted chromium.
Re:EU opens Microsoft antitrust investigation into Teams bun...
by pyrale on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:12PM
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Even before that, it was really sad when it got acquired by a shady corporation transforming it into, essentially, a malware. Back then, I moved to Firefox, and with Opera's popular features becoming the de-facto UX standard for browsers, I never moved back to Vivaldi.
Chrome copied lots of stuff from Opera, and Opera had 2.5% of marketshare. Firefox (who I personally didn't enjoy as much as Opera) had benefited from a grasroots campaign had taken years to get 35% of marketshare. Both were nobrainers compared to how broken IE was, and they were on the market years before chrome.
So.. Yeah. Chrome was a good product. But competitors had showed that being a good browser without insane advertising was never going to be enough.