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Comment by _nickwhite | Hacker News Reader

Could this be a bad thing for Firefox? Seems like Microsoft + Google is quite a rival to go against?

Firefox (by that I hope you mean Mozilla Project) cares about diversity and choice. Our Mozilla Manifesto [0] describes our vision of the balance between corporate and civic value of the Internet.

I speak for myself - I believe that decrease in diversity of implementations of the Web standard and drift toward a monopoly is harmful to our vision of the Internet and ultimately will hurt the Open Web.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

I mean, in all honesty, EdgeHTML wasn't ever really an engine that had much hope. IE has always been loathed, Edge just continued that trend. Their marketshare wasn't great, and tying browser updates to the OS as they did with IE was irresponsible for how browsers are shipped these days.

If Edge had 35% marketshare I'd be more concerned, but nobody was using it, and web developers hated trying to make their sites compatible.

Good riddance to IE/Edge of old :)

Microsoft still can participate in the WhatWG discussions, they can still try to exert some kind of influence over where Blink goes. (In the most expensive way they can just put a lot of "if"-s in the code to make Edgemium work differently from Chrome.)

Microsoft is not an active rival - at least not from a technical perspective.

It is probably up for Mozilla to make a choice: will we implement the standard or will we mimic the behavior of Blink for compatibility reasons (which may be incorrect in some cases).

I understand adding bug compatibility in the days of IE6, but in the days of Chromium, why not just fix the bug in Chromium source?

Having more chefs in the kitchen is not necessarily a better thing.

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