Long-serving Mozillian Asa Dotzler was not impressed. If Chromium had near-monopoly market share, developers would only need to build their sites and apps to work with Chromium, he said, projecting a return to the pre-Firefox 2000s when Microsoft's Internet Explorer had a monopoly on browsers.įew people agreed with Auchenberg, including engineers from both Mozilla and Chromium. Beard argued that Mozilla needed to compete with Google 'because the health of the internet and online life depend on competition and choice'. Mozilla CEO Chris Beard said at the time Microsoft's decision will give Google more power to 'single-handedly' determine how people use the web. The move will leave Firefox's Gecko engine as the only alternative to Chromium, which is used by Opera and dozens of other browsers.

The web is dominated by Chromium, if they really *cared* about the web they would be contributing instead of building a parallel universe that's used by less than 5%? - Kenneth Auchenberg January 25, 2019Īuchenberg's post referred to Mozilla's response to Microsoft's announcement in December that it would scrap Edge's EdgeHTML rendering engine for Chromium's. Thought: It's time for to get down from their philosophical ivory tower.

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