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Re:Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web by fooker on Saturday March 15, 2025 @08:29PM (#43376099)
> I think that was the wrong decision.

Could be. But this decision is why we even have other browsers.

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Re:Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web by dave4420 on Sunday March 16, 2025 @03:10PM (#43381349)
I don’t think so.

The decision came too late to save Netscape. Microsoft then stopped competing, and were slow to react when Firefox emerged.

Meanwhile, Apple were always going to create their own browser — as part of their own OS — eventually. Opera kept on keeping on. Konquerer was never going to live or die depending on what happened on Windows.

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