Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years

Re:Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years by scarface_74 on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:27PM (#38351062)

There was never that time.

1. At first it was “works best with Netscape Nsvigatpr”

2. Then it was the same with IE

3. Now it’s Chrome.

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Re:Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years by plorkyeran on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:40PM (#38354367)

There was a step in between #2 and #3 where web developers all used FF while non-technical users used IE6, so supporting both was unavoidable. Chrome didn't become dominant until a decade later.

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Re:Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years by scarface_74 on Monday November 20, 2023 @11:46PM (#38359382)

And web developers then ignored Safari from 2001-2007 before the iPhone came out…

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Re:Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years by glenstein on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:52PM (#38355426)

I'm with you on 2 and 3, but was Netscape Navigator similarly anti-competitive in a way that is analogous to Chrome or IE?

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Re:Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years by scarface_74 on Monday November 20, 2023 @05:21PM (#38355734)

Yes. They added all sorts of proprietary extensions that didn’t go through a standards body. Thad’s how we got the “navigator” object in all browsers.

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