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by calvinmorrison 1459 days ago
Say what you will (I am a sole firefox user for a decade +), at least chrome keeps improving and having development. Now that the web is more of a "VM in a window for applications", it's _not_ like the IE era of no updates, buggy crap, un-debuggable, etc.
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leeter 1459 days ago
Yes and no, Chrome does what's good for google with no regard for most of the rest. To make it worse google goes out of their way to break compatibility with other browsers when it comes to their stuff. It's really no different and in many ways just as bad. The only major difference is google's incentives do align with innovation for web; insofar as it furthers advertising revenue for google.

https://www.developer-tech.com/news/2019/apr/17/mozilla-goog...

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calvinmorrison 1459 days ago
I don't really care if there is only one implementation of Java, or if there is one implementation of "Web". It's all VMs to me.
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zaarn 1459 days ago
No, instead it's a world of "works ~~best~~ only in Google Chrome" where other browser engines have no chance to claw back marketshare.
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