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by bluejekyll 2758 days ago
I don’t really get this. Edge was only available to Windows users. This is only a loss to those users. On the other hand Chrome and Firefox are available on all major (for some subset of all) platforms. (Yes, I’m aware iPhone Firefox is hobbled bc of Apple policies).

If you want to push competition and choice, encourage everyone to use Firefox (or Safari if they only use macOS).
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pritambaral 2758 days ago
> Edge was only available to Windows users.

And still, it was some competition to Chrome and Firefox.

> encourage everyone to use Firefox.

Which can be done while also lamenting the loss of a Firefox competitor, especially when said loss gains Firefox nothing.

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bluejekyll 2758 days ago
MS could have chosen to base their platform on Firefox, but they chose to go with Chromium.

We can lament the passing of Edge, but I wonder how people would have felt if instead of Edge they just had this announcement as the replacement for IE. Would we have cared? No one seems to miss IE.

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O1111OOO 2758 days ago
> MS could have chosen to base their platform on Firefox...

There actually might have been an outcry over this. I'm not aware of any Firefox forks, for example, that aren't focused on privacy. MS would have been the first to fork FF and undo lots of the privacy features in the browser (engine).

With Chrome/Chromium, there's a reluctant acceptance of data-harvesting and (unethical) tracking.

I wonder if MS gave the above scenario some thought...

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pritambaral 2758 days ago
> MS could have chosen to base their platform on Firefox, but they chose to go with Chromium.

MS went with Chromium because they want that implicit "best viewed in Chrome" compatibility.

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