Google doesn't have to listen to anyone, this is what having a browser market share of 70%+ grants you. Question is, will their move chip away at that market share? If people actually care, it should.
What holds one back is that Chrome has made itself indispensable. It's remembered your passwords, your credit cards, your addresses, etc. All part of a plan to keep you happily in its garden.
No conspiracy, just business.
That's the one of the first things I disable when I install a browser or create a new profile. Along with history, third party cookies, search prediction stuff, etc. Also clear all cookies and cache when I exit the browser.
I also use a pihole to block ads and trackers more completely, but I do like having an additional browser-level feature with "enhanced tracking protection"[1] – if it did nothing else, I like simply having the list of attempted-tracker on every site easily available at all times.
[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...
I still use Firefox but it is not way better then ever... they keep removing useful features... especially on mobile where you can't even use most extensions anymore.
But it is Ridiculous that only about 15 out of the thousands of addons work with the latest version of Firefox Mobile.
All of them used to work in the previous engine of Firefox Mobile... nice downgrade.
I hope it will also spur others like Microsoft to reconsider using Chrome's codebase and thus add to browser diversity. Because Google will keep making it harder to cut this stuff out.
I never understood why microsoft was suddenly so hell-bent on rebuilding edge. The engine they used had nothing to do with me not using it. I just didn't want to jump from one corporate toy to another. This still goes except they're marketing it so heavily to enterprises now that it's become the standard browser at work. I still use Firefox there when I can though :)
They want a piece of the analytics pie.
I think it was just the marketing effort that got Edge Chromium more adopted, not the move to chromium itself. Every time we had a call with a MS consultant (about any unrelated topic) they had to bring it up again, it was crazy.
IE, and to a lesser-extent, pre-Chromium Edge became instruments of active developer hostility. I know people who still have to support an embedded IE7 component.
To truly fix Edge, they'd have to keep a constant and large development effort to match Chrome/Safari/Firefox point for point. For a product that even their strongest advocates will admit is basically a "pack in" product of relatively minor market share. It's like telling them "You've got to retool MS Paint to compete with Photoshop."
Of course they'll pick the easy road, slapping some paint and customizations on Blink. Although they could have at least bought into Gecko.
Chromium edge is best of all worlds
> Speed/UI of Chrome
> Firefox like privacy
> Backed by Big brand so cant be sold out(Opera/Vivandi/Brave)
I mean, it can, it just doesn't have to involve a sale