Comment on Why are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?
Izzy@lemmy.world 11 months agoChromium 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.
abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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
Resolved3874@lemdro.id 11 months 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.
over_clox@lemmy.world 11 months 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…
0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster 11 months ago
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.
over_clox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I hardly care anymore myself. I’m learning more and more about the de-googled internet and finding myself with even more options, like anonymous, shared, unlimited, protected cloud storage capacity that even works from IE5 in HTML1.1
Yes it’s a series of hacks, not your everyday approach, but I’m doing my part to keep the old internet ticking and archived as best as I can, with terabytes of data archived and accessible even on ancient potatoes.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months 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.