Microsoft Project manager says Mozilla should cease Firefox development

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18 points·nojvek··7 comments

Headline might as well say "Microsoft project manager is an idiot". It's amazing to me how Microsoft has caved to Google in every single product area in the last couple years. "Just use Chrome" comes right after "just use Android". I kinda expect Microsoft to start telling people they should switch to Google Docs any day now.

The last thing the Internet needs is everyone to officially agree to abandon all web software not written by Google. If anything, let's cease Chrome development.

I agree. Developing CSS work around for each different browser is a pain. Everyone should be using webkit. It won.

Difficulty developing for multiple differing implementations of a standard is an argument for better adherence to standards, not an argument for reduced numbers of implementations.

But Chrome doesn’t use WebKit, it uses blink.

Forked from WebKit

I don't understand what everyone is afraid of. If it truly is the case that Chrome disables ad-block functionally, can't we just fork Chromium and any necessary components? I have no concern over Google taking over Internet share, just as people were concerned with Microsoft taking over PC share in the 90s. Maybe I'm not politically aware, but these dooms day corporate reign scenarios you all have nightmares about seem pointless.

Antitrust action is why Google exists, and why you aren't still using Internet Explorer 6.

And you can't "just fork" because the problem is compatibility/standards. As long as most people/browsers use Chrome, any fork must follow Google's decisions or else it won't work with websites properly. We already see this to some degree now.

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