"You may have recently read that a new version of Internet Explorer (currently hiding under an alias Microsoft Edge) based on Chromium has been released. According to current market share rankings this move puts Chromium-based browsers well above 75% of the desktop browser market share. The biggest contributor to this statistic is of course Google Chrome. For comparison Firefox at the height of its popularity barely managed to cross 30% market share."
The linked article from 2019 is someone's trivial analysis of why Chrome based browsers became popular; then a rant about the evils of google. The only reason given that I have a "moral obligation" to use firefox? because it sucks slightly less than it used to?
This is dumb. Even if you use Firefox, Firefox will be forced to keep parity with Chromium, which means that Google still gets to decide the future of the internet.
Anyway, I think that the situation has changed since Microsoft forked Chromium. Google will have to think twice about making unilateral decisions about the direction of the web, because Microsoft Edge is so popular.
I think that Firefox serves no purpose now, and Chromium will become the "linux kernel" of the web world. Just look at Vivaldi, Brave, etc.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 14.7 ms ] threadAnyway, I think that the situation has changed since Microsoft forked Chromium. Google will have to think twice about making unilateral decisions about the direction of the web, because Microsoft Edge is so popular.
I think that Firefox serves no purpose now, and Chromium will become the "linux kernel" of the web world. Just look at Vivaldi, Brave, etc.