Google is a monopoly. Breakup may be coming; what comes after may not be better

Re:Google is a monopoly. Breakup may be coming; what comes a... by dagmx on Thursday August 15, 2024 @08:48PM (#41262031)

Differing priorities. Edge is based on blink now anyway , so as a core browser engine they’re roughly the same. It’s the higher level UX that is differentiated.

Safari has largely caught up now for web standards and mostly only lags behind in experimental features that are largely driven by Google anyway. But Safari has better battery use and privacy.

Chrome is good because Google see it as their play at a web OS. That’s why they shove everything and the kitchen sink into it.

So it’s just different priorities and the resulting differentiators. I don’t think any major browser is actually significantly better anymore today.

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Re:Google is a monopoly. Breakup may be coming; what comes a... by katbyte on Friday August 16, 2024 @01:53AM (#41263530)

I would love to use safari but for years now it will randomly just start refreshing pages. I have no idea why or even where to begin to debug it so on chrome I stay.

Removing manifest v2 might be the kick to try Firefox again but I’d still like to fix safari

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Re:Google is a monopoly. Breakup may be coming; what comes a... by tracker1 on Friday August 16, 2024 @12:26PM (#41267815)

The irony there is for a while, I considered Blink based Edge better than Chrome. The issue is they added what are basically a bunch of pre-installed extensions to Edge that I really hated and kept making the UX worse to me.

Honestly if there was a set of plugins that would sync my bookmarks toolbar links I'd have less issue switching browsers and trying others more.

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