Mozilla not happy about Microsoft moving to Chromium project
Mozilla not happy about Microsoft moving to Chromium project, the devs of the Mozilla project can smell the competition and claim by adopting Chromium, “Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google”.
Last week the news surfaced that Microsoft will be replacing the Edge browser based on Edgehtml with an engine based on the Chromium engine, reports myce.
Mozilla in their argument thinks the swap to Chromium would bring Google even more control over the web and potentially make it harder for Firefox. Mozilla’s CEO, Chris Beard writes, “will Microsoft’s decision make it harder for Firefox to prosper? It could. Making Google more powerful is risky on many fronts.”
Beard fears that Google will soon have a monopoly on the internet. He writes about that, “If one product like Chromium has enough market share, then it becomes easier for web developers and businesses to decide not to worry if their services and sites work with anything other than Chromium. That’s what happened when Microsoft had a monopoly on browsers in the early 2000s before Firefox was released. And it could happen again.”
Beard also writes he understands that from Microsoft’s business point of view it’s no longer profitable to fight Google, but stresses how important it is that not a single company has control over the internet. He writes, “from a social, civic and individual empowerment perspective ceding control of fundamental online infrastructure to a single company is terrible. This is why Mozilla exists. We compete with Google not because it’s a good business opportunity. We compete with Google because the health of the internet and online life depend on competition and choice.”
Therefore, Beard calls for users that care about the web to try Firefox again for at least a week. Especially users who haven’t used the browser the last two years should notice it’s “radically better”. He concludes his call for a more diverse web with, “your use helps web developers and businesses think beyond Chrome. And this helps Firefox and Mozilla make overall life on the internet better — more choice, more security options, more competition.”
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Happy Firefox user here for about 14 years. I tried Chrome a couple of times but never liked it, and more recently privacy is becoming a growing concern with Chrome which deterred me from Chrome completely.
I agree with Mozilla CEO, he is of course 100% correct but no one will do anything about it.
Funny I can say the same thing about Firefox, I prefer IE or Edge but on Linux I prefer Chrome heck even on my iOS I still used Chrome even knowing that Edge was just been made available
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I've tried Firefox countless times over the years, including a couple of times in the last few months, and every single time, within minutes, I've run across a website that does not work correctly, or renders so badly as to make the site unusable. I'm sorry, Firefox. Get your act together and I'll use your browser.
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Well MDN is thw facto reference for browser code and apis. And firefox and chrome have basically no differences. And complicated html5 web app are often transpiled to plain machine generated JS. How can it happen that is broken on firefox?
My firefox is broken experience is very narrowly limited in svg images painting on canvas and little else, while often chrome has a broken canvas api because of the latest code optimizations.
Firefox is often the browser that work imho, chrome the one you use for developing.
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Happy Firefox user here for about 14 years. I tried Chrome a couple of times but never liked it, and more recently privacy is becoming a growing concern with Chrome which deterred me from Chrome completely.
I agree with Mozilla CEO, he is of course 100% correct but no one will do anything about it.
There is Chrome and Chromium...
You can mod and compile your own clean Chromium when Chrome is full of Google shit ( euphemisme, lol).
Same company at the end but different product, you can even do an anti-Google Chromium based browser.
The thing that make Chromium in quasi all browser is that it is fast (but not the fastest Edge is still faster, but less fun) and really easy to integrate in a browser project (while as an exemple, Mozilla is more complex at the same exercice).
Exept that, internet change a lot now, after years of mondialisation it fracturate by geographic zone more and more each day.