The so called 'open web' has been a myth for years (and it still is) and the exchange of dominance between Microsoft's Internet Explorer hated by the tech crowd and have now instead cheered on the dominance of Google's Chrome Browser has been an example of not only history repeating itself but also rhyming.
Mozilla's Firefox was ahead of IE at one point, but then they did absolutely nothing to keep it up and stop Chrome's ascension to the browser throne and perhaps they themselves believed that they didn't need to fully depend on Google millions of $ at one point. [0] That was in 2007, it has been 15 years and they are still dependent on them which is a complete failure in moving the needle to stopping and moving away from them.
Mozilla hasn't even been effective at stopping anything that Google pushes into Chrome such as the DRM proposals and they still implemented it anyway despite push back from their 'users'. That decision already has destroyed this 'open web' narrative.
It is not early days anymore and the billions of people do not care about Firefox and even if you gave them that choice on iOS, they are very likely to choose Chrome or a Chrome-variant as their browser; at worse Safari will become their second choice. On Android, we already have seen this browser choice in place and the result? Is is still exactly them same. Chrome wins again.
On the desktop, Brave tried to use Firefox Gecko as their engine years ago but gave up and switched to Chromium's engine. The rest of the other Firefox-derivations are either outdated or dead. Perhaps the problem is Firefox itself not being able to be competitive enough and just got lazy on Google's money.
So here we are once again, Mozilla is still crying to congress about their inability to compete. Sounds like an indication that Firefox is getting increasingly irrelevant.
Mozilla's Firefox was ahead of IE at one point, but then they did absolutely nothing to keep it up and stop Chrome's ascension to the browser throne and perhaps they themselves believed that they didn't need to fully depend on Google millions of $ at one point. [0] That was in 2007, it has been 15 years and they are still dependent on them which is a complete failure in moving the needle to stopping and moving away from them.
Mozilla hasn't even been effective at stopping anything that Google pushes into Chrome such as the DRM proposals and they still implemented it anyway despite push back from their 'users'. That decision already has destroyed this 'open web' narrative.
It is not early days anymore and the billions of people do not care about Firefox and even if you gave them that choice on iOS, they are very likely to choose Chrome or a Chrome-variant as their browser; at worse Safari will become their second choice. On Android, we already have seen this browser choice in place and the result? Is is still exactly them same. Chrome wins again.
On the desktop, Brave tried to use Firefox Gecko as their engine years ago but gave up and switched to Chromium's engine. The rest of the other Firefox-derivations are either outdated or dead. Perhaps the problem is Firefox itself not being able to be competitive enough and just got lazy on Google's money.
So here we are once again, Mozilla is still crying to congress about their inability to compete. Sounds like an indication that Firefox is getting increasingly irrelevant.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu...
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