[ygra]

I don't particularly see a new large player come in the browser space, though. Creating a browser from scratch is a huge untertaking and the fact that everyone except Google, Mozilla, and Apply have given up is testament to that.

Edge (Legacy) was a decent browser, but keeping up even with still missing Web APIs proved too expensive (alongside fixing bugs). Safari may be in the same pickle these days with apparently a sizeable backlog of missing features and incompatible implementations. Granted, that may also be due to many developers assuming Chrome to be a reference implementation.

If a new player comes along I'd guess it will be based on Blink, but they would probably need more resources than Google can throw at Chrome. And a way to finance them ... there's probably too few people willing to pay for a browser these days.

[judge2020]

The point is that Google is managing their dominance properly, only really held off from >90% dominance by Apple's WebKit rule for iOS App Store apps.

[323]

You mean like disabling important functionality required by uBlock and other ad-blockers?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-st...

[fomine3]

I don't like but to be fair Safari do the same thing.

[shadowgovt]

Disabling functionality that allows attackers to backdoor changes to their plugin behavior in without getting the plugin re-vetted, yes.

[kingcharles]

They said that about Facebook...

[shadowgovt]

I don't think anyone saw Chrome coming until it blew up nearly overnight, if memory serves.

[TAKEMYMONEY]

They did, check out this article Browser Wars: The Sequel from 2010

https://web.archive.org/web/20150611210558/https://www.bloom...

It didn't blow up overnight, it was more like 3-4 years, but it was meteoric compared to what we were used to