Also advocate for support with browser manufacturers. It used to be good, then one of them dropped it and the others blindly followed. People clearly want the RSS button, why on earth not provide it?
Whatever comes with the browser will not be as good as an extension from a company focused on that feature. For example I use https://www.inoreader.com/
Open the current page's RSS feed in my configured client. Failing that, copy its URL. Absolute minimum, it's a shortcut for having to view source, cmd-f, "RSS", cmd-c
Who said that? It's meaningful if you read the feed across multiple devices, but lots of people read RSS on their computer only.
And even so browsers could provide RSS status synchronization. In fact almost every browser is already syncing your browsing history, bookmarks and settings if you are signed in.
> Whatever comes with the browser will not be as good as an extension...
not true.
- It rendered the feed in a pretty way.
- If provided a little widget to open the feed in your feed reader (in practice it substituted the feed url into a URL template with popular readers by default and the option to add your own). This basically made it a one-click subscribe option.
Then don’t click it?
> RSS is best when integrated with a stateful server-side reader.
Hard disagree.
Look, you do you, but your preferences aren’t universal.
Most people didn't decide. Most people were tricked into using chrome. Most people are not computer literate.
Give Google credit: they have created a very useful ecosystem that has won people over in the marketplace. I NEVER thought anything would convince companies to move off of Microsoft Office, but Google is actually doing it (on a small scale at least).
Creating an ecosystem where you web apps "encourage" users to use your browser is the antithesis of an open marketplace.
Most people switched from Internet Explorer.
Firefox was never the "mainstream" choice.
This may be more regional-based and profession-based though. Around 2010 when Chrome was entering the market Firefox had around 30% global market share. In Slovakia where I'm from Firefox was "mainstream enough" that we had it pre-installed on high school and library computers and were taught to use it instead of IE as early as 2005..., But also in lots of enterprise-style managed companies (including basically all government offices, banks, ...) you couldn't use anything other than IE as late as 2016 cause there was no way they were gonna allow you to change your homepage from the company intranet home, so there were also lots of people who were using Firefox at home but also using IE at work because they had no other choice...