• miffmaff@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So as far as i know, firefox is the only mayor browser not based on chromium. Also, firefox is dependent on google’s funding because of a search engine exclisivity deal. So my understanding is that, if google decides to kill firefox, they could easily do that. Well, what then? Is there any other browser left wich similar features that would be untouchable by google?

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        1 year ago

        So the lawsuit appears to be looking at Google as a search engine monopoly, not web browser, right? And if I’m understanding this right, assuming this lawsuit goes anywhere, it would actually incentivize Google to pull funding from Firefox to no longer support that search engine exclusivity deal.

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          1 year ago

          Google still benefits from having Firefox around, so that they can maintain less of an appearance of a monopoly in the browser space. Whatever way they fund Firefox, it’s still to their benefit to do so.

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        1 year ago

        This is pretty much the same situation as when Apple faced bankruptcy a while back and Microsoft essentially bailed them out.

        Having an effective monopoly is better than a literal one for legal reasons

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      1 year ago

      Fun fact, Firefox used to be called… Netscape… Yeah… Let’s see how many miklenials are in here!

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        1 year ago

        Sort of. Netscape released the program’s source code and Firefox used that as a base, but it wasn’t like they took Netscape and just changed the name to Firefox like your comment implies. They were competing browsers for a while.

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        1 year ago

        And remember what happened when Microsoft tried to kill Netscape? That needs to happen again, but against Google.

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      1 year ago

      This should be the top comment, and I’m going to come back to view the replies. I can’t personally think of any realistic alternatives. Someone further down posted a link to an article about the US investigating Google for a search engine monopoly, but I’m not sure how large a role that would factor into web browsers.

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      1 year ago

      You have to decide for yourself if those browsers have the features you need, but just for your interest, other non-chromium browsers are Ladybird, NetSurf, Flow, Pale Moon, Basilisk and K-Meleon.

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        1 year ago

        Honestly, I’ll give credit to Apple for pushing forward JXL on webkit and pushing back against Chromium team’s dominance and Mozilla team’s apathetic stance in the browser space. While I appreciate Mozilla’s stance on Manifest V3 and several other issues, I can’t help but hope for more development from the Servo project.

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      We will have to maintain a Chromium fork with their trackers removed, if it comes to that.

      Likely Google won’t do anything until or unless the bulk of the public moves off of Chrome over this.