As a larger point, it is important to have multiple web stacks so that no one player can dictate what the web should look like, or gate access through that stack. Having this new stack grow to the point where it is becoming a viable alternative is great to see.
That strikes me as a pretty naive view. If you y've got a webstack with >90% market share, you effectively have one webstack which dictates what the web should look like.
Because most devs will only test for it (best ROI) and most users will switch to it when their ability to use the web on other stacks starts degrading.
I'm not hopeful that it can ever be replicated. That said, I will always continue to use browsers other than Chrome, so at least selfishly I'm excited about projects like this!
Playing dirty [eg. purposely changing Youtube to not work with the standards adhered to to by FF], making promises that they never filled and lots of aggressive marketing is the only reason that they achieved dominance.
[1]: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blo... That's the list of unique divisions that Chrome sends to, but don't forget that they send which page you went to, how long you stayed on the page, your passwords in plaintext, etc.
are you sure they do that? That's a big claim, and a huge security problem.
Went home, logged into the same website from my desktop. Chrome offered to log me in.
My unprofessional conclusion - Google could not have encrypted my password in a way that would have prevented them from logging in as me on another device.
As an aside, I was logged into GMail on the desktop, but I couldn't recall having logged into Chrome. If correct, than once you have logged into a Google property, all is fair game on any other sites you visit.
It took MS sleeping on it for several years and the entire web taking off like a rocket for that to happen. Not to mention “full web” mobile expectations.
It took cataclysmic disruptions in the space to even have a chance if breaking IE’s monopoly.
A website I use said I need to use their Chrome add-on to automate some info gathering stuff. But I use Firefox?
Google dictates it and I've ran into many many sites that doesn't function with firefox or anything other than chrome
For a while, Slack didn't support all features on Firefox despite the technology being there, I don't know if this is still the case.
That said, lately, that particular thing has been the only one that I need to use that outright doesn't work.
I think a number of Google technologies are slower in Firefox on purpose, but I just avoid them and keep telling competition authorities about their abuse of power.
Sooner or later they will get caught.