Comment on Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome

• sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  because this is inherently Apple’s fault and not Mozilla’s.

  Apple’s the one forcing every browser on iOS to be a reskinned version of Safari. And it’s perfectly understandable that Mozilla doesn’t want to waste time developing features for a Firefox-branded Safari.

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  • Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s your point? The dude gave a perfectly valid reason to not using Firefox, regardless of who’s fault it is.

    But also, how on earth would building a functional browser for a phone that owns 55% of the US market share be a waste of time and resources?

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    • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      it’s a perfectly valid reason for not using Firefox, my point is that they’re on the wrong platform. It’s the user’s own fault, because they chose a closed platform like iOS. Developing free software for iOS is a waste of time, since everything is under Apple’s tyrannical rule and they get to decide which web engine you use, they can disallow extensions and make it very hard (and against their ToS) to sideload apps.

      I don’t like Mozilla at all, and that’s why I use Firefox derivatives and not Firefox itself, but I’m glad they don’t waste time developing for a re-skinned Safari. Those resources are best used in their own web engine.

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      • Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        these people won’t be happy until you jump through every hoop imaginable to use the Lemmy approved software

        and hardware apparently lol

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• JasSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am also confused. I didn’t know phone browsers were a team sport, but here we are.

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