Comment on Why are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?

• Izzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Chromium is likely more popular because Google has such a stranglehold over the development of new internet standards. They set standards and then implement them into Chromium perfectly which tends to make Chrome really well optimized and fast.

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  • abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Doesn’t work forever though. Used to be the same with Microsoft and Internet Explorer, but better things came along that were less terrible and not controlled by a single tech company throwing their weight around to push their own standards.

    It’ll happen again if Google restricts the extension store much more though. They’ve been attacking ad and privacy extensions for years

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    • Resolved3874@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “leaks” about Google blocking ad blockers got me to switch to Firefox in October last year. Was worth the risk. Took the time to also leave googles password manager and switch to bitwarden as well.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are still websites that work on basic HTML 1.1, even under Windows 3.11 and Internet Explorer 5.

      That whole ‘nothing lasts forever’ thing isn’t because the changing internet standards, it’s because companies and websites choose to adopt those standards rather than stick with backwards compatibility.

      Granted yes, a lot of it has to do with security, Google’s pocketbook security by shoving ads in our faces…

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      • 0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That whole ‘nothing lasts forever’ thing isn’t because the changing internet standards, it’s because companies and websites choose to adopt those standards rather than stick with backwards compatibility.

        That won’t stand true with Google I’m afraid. They adapt quickly. Meta is probably quicker than them, but doesn’t have the user base Google has, so it really can’t dictate that much.

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    • Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As long as chrome is the default option on every or almost every android smartphone chrome will have the majority marketshare. People always mostly use the default.

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• neuromancer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    everyone knows how to use Chrome

    Bro it’s a browser. They’re fairly identical to the end users it matters for.

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  • ScrivenerX@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    there is no real upside to picking Gecko apart from Google = bad.

    AdBlock works better on Firefox. Firefox takes fewer resources. Firefox is open source. And that’s just off the top of my head.

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  • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Google = bad

    Isn’t Google trying to embed DRM into webpages to avoid track blocking as we speak?

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    • vd1n@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah but I save 0.000097 seconds per page load. I did that make and it will give me approximately 2.3568 additional seconds to the length of my life.

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      • berg@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        s/math/meth/gc FTFY

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      • Streetdog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        May that fap satisfy your needs, my brother in Christ.

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  • Izzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That makes a lot of sense when you are looking at the two today, but Firefox is older than Chrome. So they managed to become more advanced and take all the browser marketshare in some way.

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    • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Chrome was really fast back then. And Google has money to burn on ad campaigns.

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    • neuromancer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • Izzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Chromium stays the best by developing new internet standards. Then big websites adopt them and Mozilla has no choice but to play catch-up if they want these sites to work well in their browsers.

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