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by KingOfCoders 870 days ago
While Mozilla is re-selling privacy service (see other news on HN), others are building a better browser. Without the need of $6B.
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Mozilla has definitely a management problem. But the product is good. very good even.
Unfortunately, Mozilla is not interested in providing an easily embedable web engine. It makes sense: it goes against their interests as a company whose main product is a fully featured web browser.

Google, on the other hand, provides a web engine with a nice license and reasonable ergonomics that can be used for all sorts of projects. This allows them to execute an EEE strategy:

Embed (into all kinds of projects)

Enforce (moving-target standards of your own making)

Exhaust (any potential competitor/resources that needs to chase after them)

This is why I wish we can get an alternative, OSS, easy-to-embed engine soon.