[adrr]

Users want to chrome hegemony and don't care about the open web or Firefox. Its the number #1 browser on desktop even though it doesn't come with the OS. Windows comes with edge and macs come with safari. Users have to download Chrome.

[j45]

All browsers so far have come and gone in popularity. Even when it seemed unimaginable.

[Iulioh]

But today everything but Firefox is Chromium.

That's a little different

[warrenm]

And 20 years ago everything was IE (at >90% penetration)

[Iulioh]

The problem is Chromium ,not Chrome

Like you have the illusion of choice, that's what I'm talking about and that's different

[j45]

Firefox entered into a contract per-install with Google that did no evil while Google iirc was building their own browser secretly.

Browser engines are now open source a lot more than they were.

I don’t think it’s about illusion of choice as much as some browsers actively working to degooglify themselves from Chromium and maintain it.

Some browsers are maintaining their own forks, others aren’t.