Can we please stop using Firefox addons as central factor when predicting Google's business strategy?
Not many people out side of the tech community use ad-blockers and those that do probably aren't the ones clicking on ads anyway.
Not many people out side of the tech community use ad-blockers and those that do probably aren't the ones clicking on ads anyway.
Well, yeah. But they could, and that would be nuclear for google. I'm amazed that the people in this thread honestly believe that the HTML rendering code is anything but a side-issue at google. Management probably just said to the engs, "Okay, use whatever's best" and that was that.
Almost every dollar google makes comes through IE and Firefox. It's like...if Fedex only had two drivers, one of whom was a UPS shareholder, and the other a revolutionary socialist. I don't know how google could not view this as a strategic problem. Msft could say "to hell with google", set live.com as the default search on IE and give firefox a billion dollars to do the same. R.I.P. google.
You know, I was going to be snotty and disagree, but I just did a search for myself and my book on Live, and the results were FAR more ordered and accurate. Thanks for the tip-off!
And no, I have no evidence or special insight into what high-level strategic discussions are taking place at Google or Microsoft. I'm just going out on a limb and guessing that those discussions are not about Webkit.