Post #2891049

2026-05-15 10:56 UTC

@leeloo@c.im @nicklockwood@mastodon.social Chrome and IE have different failures. IE stagnated. What people forget is that IE started off as a really good browser! Unfortunately, MS won and they just stopped investing in it. Google obviously has different incentives, but the issue is that it doesn't matter whether Chrome implements standards correctly or not. Firefox could have a better implementation, but it doesn't matter if everyone uses Chromium.

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@sdarlington@mas.to 2026-05-15 10:59

@leeloo@c.im @nicklockwood@mastodon.social As a general point, what I don't like about Chrome being so dominant is that Google are an advertising company. I don't feel like my interests (privacy) are aligned with theirs (selling my data). Still, I'd rather it's Google owning Chrome than, say, Meta.

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@leeloo@c.im 2026-05-15 11:12

@sdarlington@mas.to @nicklockwood@mastodon.social Forgot or weren't there? I didn't use IE until IE4, which along with IE6 were the worst browsers I've ever used and developed for (I barely recall IE5). Maybe IE 1/2 were really good, I was using Netscape at the time. As for everyone using Chrome, that's what you get when Mozilla insists on doing everything in their power to piss off users. I used to love Firefox. I really tried, I put up with the constant breakage from Firefox 4 to Firefox 56, and in the end had about 15 must have extensions to fix everything Mozilla broke or removed. Then Firefox 57 broke all of them, and I had to give up.

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