We avoided the worst outcome, they were considering killing Firefox to prevent a Google internet monopoly.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fucken boo
We need an open standard browser that isnt owned by monied interests.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What. Idk how that makes sense but I guess I am glad that didn’t happen. Still frustrated with this outcome tho.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
They were considering blocking Google from paying Mozilla to be the default search engine, which is almost all of Firefox 's revenue.
It kinda makes sense, chome being the dominant browser gives Google a search advantage, and the other alternatives (like safari and Firefox) both make deals with Google to have it be the default as well.
But removing those deals would be more disastrous for Firefox than for Google.
Pro@programming.dev 1 month ago
Servo Browser Engine.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 month ago
That will be very exciting when it actually exists
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hopefully one day it will be