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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by jmillikin on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @06:07PM (#5489534)
Current popular browsers are:

  * Firefox
  * Chrome / Chromium
  * Internet Explorer
  * Safari
  * Opera
All of them are produced with the aim of benefiting their parent corporations in some way -- for example, Mozilla Corp rents the default search engine setting to Google for hundreds of millions per year.

I currently use Firefox and Chromium as my primary browsers, because they are the only popular browsers that are open-source and therefore the only browsers I fully trust. Despite coming from "business entities", neither browser shows me ads, requires me to enter a government-approved name, or requires me to install third-party applications.

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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by asadotzler on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:48PM (#5490864)
"All of them are produced with the aim of benefiting their parent corporations in some way -- for example, Mozilla Corp rents the default search engine setting to Google for hundreds of millions per year."

You've crafted a sentence that will mislead people.

Mozilla did not, and does not, make Firefox in order to generate search revenue. Mozilla makes Firefox to directly advance Mozilla's non-profit, public benefit mission to improve the Web.

Firefox is not produced with the aim of generating revenue. It never has been and it never will be.

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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @06:19PM (#5489630)
Mozilla Corp was set up by Mozilla Foundation for tax reasons. Firefox is produced with the aim of meeting the foundation's mission.
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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by awakeasleep on Thursday April 04, 2013 @03:35AM (#5491472)
Let's all take a deep breath and contemplate the times when we have been as self-assuredly wrong as the author of the above comment. Here's to civil discussion that shores up the spots in life where we're ignorant.
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