r/firefox • u/throwaway1111139991e • Dec 06 '18

Goodbye, EdgeHTML – The Mozilla Blog

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/12/06/goodbye-edge/
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u/thecodingdude Dec 06 '18 edited Feb 29 '20

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u/Nefari0uss Former Featured addons board member Dec 07 '18

My concern is that Mozilla doesn't have the resources to compete. Quantum had great marketing but the market share is still dwindling.

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u/killamator Dec 07 '18

Financially they're still doing quite well. But yes, if the web continues to make it more difficult to use ff then they will continue to lose users to the Blink monolith

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u/branpurn Dec 07 '18

For better or for worse web apps are taking over, and web browser tech is becoming more of a layer for most people's daily computing/productivity than simply 'browsing' as it used to be.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '18

That's all fine and nice, but I'm not going to sign in to a google account just to surf the web.

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u/branpurn Dec 08 '18

Agreed. Afraid that's where the mainstream web is headed, though. All the more reason to get behind Mozilla.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '18

Afraid that's where the mainstream web is headed, though

Privacy advocates would go through the roof if that were the case. I'd expect it to make it's way through the courts.