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[โ€“] fu@libranet.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@yogthos @PP44 I'm not sure how old you are, but it wasn't too long ago that they said the same thing about Microsoft in general and IE specifically (If Irecall correctly IE for Mac was the default browser for like MacOS 8 or 9)

All it takes is someone to be innovative and different. After Netscape opened their code the Mozilla project took off like lightning and by the time I was in College Firefox was the default for most, than Google did Chrome and things where speedier than Firefox and we are where we are, and Firefox seems to be interested primarily being developed from privacy/security focused users. I don't think there are actually that many people in that space, and that space also has overlap with folks who wouldn't want to use Firefox due to preferring the type of security provided by the Tor Browser over the Tor Network.

I'm not sure what the next step will be, I feel like current hardware/infrastructure probably means that speed improvements for browsers aren't going to be the primary driving force for changes in the market here, but someone somewhere will come with an innovative solution to change items.

[โ€“] PP44@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Let's hope you are right. I agree that things can change, but I have to admit I'm quite worried.