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Comment by bigfudge

5 days ago

That was almost 20 years ago though. Things are really different now and it's hard to imagine Firefox saving anything these days. Sadly, the only entities powerful enough to control FANGs are FANGs (although fingers crossed the EU holds it's nerve and EU nations belatedly act on the realisation that being beholden to US tech giants is a massive strategic blunder, akin to relying so heavily on US military satellite data for Ukraine).

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concinds  5 days ago

Yes, new problems will require new solutions. I'm calling out the logic of paternalism and dependency, an impotent hope pinned on a "benevolent" corporation retaining absolute control forever.

chongli  5 days ago

I don't have much faith in Firefox saving us, given its organizational turnover and cultural issues.

I have much more faith in a new entrant, like Ladybird. I should be able to use Ladybird on iOS. Why not?

  • ethbr1  5 days ago

    The problem with "new entrant" is that only revolutionary features convince users to switch en mass.

    Tabs/stability (Firefox vs IE). V8 (Chrome vs Firefox).

    Anything else is a battle of attrition, where the deepest pocketed competitor in terms of advertising spend wins. Or Google, because it flood all its own advertising channels.

    And Chrome still barely only won.

  • pipeline_peak  5 days ago

    Ladybird has too much pride.

    They are more concerned with making something from scratch than something that actually works.

    Also they’re switching over to Swift which can only be worse for performance.