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Google pays $140 Million a year to Firefox to be the search default. Given the choice, I believe they would prefer to keep the $140 Million and just have people use Chrome.

Yes. Use an Android device with Chrome. Most users are stuck with whatever came from the phone. iPhone far outperforms in terms of % upgrades. http://developer.android.com/resource…

There is a difference between direct and indirect patent infringement. Google provides the Android source, but the companies that are being sued are directly infringing by selling …

According to the official breakdown of Android devices by OS version only 0.6% of devices are on 3.0 or later. http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve... And e…

Social is too important for one company to control the market. This is a great start for Google+, but Google is fighting with one arm behind their back given the network effects of…

I was pretty certain that Opera's reported score couldn't be that bad. I am definitely very suprised. Overall, I have to say, I am a huge fan of having these thorough tests come to…

That's a good point. It would be interesting to get a read on the latest Aurora builds. I might install it and do it later today.

You mean pimply and with a bad attitude :)

Some of the most interesting work is only hinted at in the blog. IE 10 PP2 now leads on EcmaScript standards conformance. IE 10 only fails 7 tests compared to 200 for Firefox 5 out…

On the Mozilla technology page http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/technology/ it specifically calls out ES5 support. There is no qualifier, so I am assuming that they believe the…

i get the same type of result for 'gmail'. Most of the queries result in pictures of women showing panties or in thongs.

The core issue is this - enterprises can reduce testing and maintenance costs for their internal apps because they can control and standardize their browser enviroment. Sites that …

It's not about cutting edge or not cutting edge. The same inconsistencies are present in implementations for all the major specifications. It's worse in most cases as there aren't …

This was not the best way to ease users into the new Firefox versioning and the associated benefits. If there had been something subtantial in 5, it might have worked. But it seeme…

Buy an iPod Touch and use VOIP over WiFi for calling. You probably have WiFi coverage at home and at work. What you are really paying for is the inbetween places. If those don't ma…

I am not sure that is true any more. As an example. Run something like Test 262( http://test262.ecmascript.org/ ) which is the official test suite for JavaScript 5 and you'll see h…

Here is the full vision statement "Discover, experience and connect with apps, websites and people on your own terms, everywhere." Two problems: forgettable & undifferentiated. See…

Agree Facebook is the player that could be a serious competitor to Skype. But their strategy would indicate that they wouldn't implement federation. They would create their own clo…

This reverse deal idea didn't make any sense when I heard about. But I have been surprised before, so would interesting to hear counterpoints. The fundamental problems as I see it …