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What will a Chromium-only Web look like?

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Re: What will a Chromium-only Web look like?

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Post by Santosh83 »

ecmascript wrote: post #3

It will not be Chromium only. It will be chromium and safari and it already is. Apple will most likely never open up unless forced, which usually sucks but is a good thing due to the monopoly of the market. Firefox is responsible for such a low percentage it's sad (the stats I have for the sites I work on it's usually on the 1-2% range). I think it's mainly because of the horrible leadership at Mozilla. I want to use…

> Firefox is responsible for such a low percentage it's sad (the stats I have for the sites I work on it's usually on the 1-2% range). I think it's mainly because of the horrible leadership at Mozilla. I want to use Firefox and promote it but every time I think they've changed Mozilla does something new that boils my blood.

This is repeated ad nauseum on this site and needs to be called out. The Mozilla management may be rather self serving but Firefox is a fine browser and more than viable alternative to Chrome. The reason they're losing market share is because Chrome is bundled everywhere as default, not just Android, but often as part of desktop Windows too, by OEM. And now Edge, which is Chromium under the skin, is the default on MS Windows. So Firefox is used only by those who specifically seek it out, which means just a small portion of the tech community.

Re: What will a Chromium-only Web look like?

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Post by wdb »

paol wrote: post #4

We don't have to speculate, we've been through this already during the IE4 to IE6 era. Microsoft just did whatever they wanted with the web "platform", and so will Google. In Microsoft's case what they wanted was nothing . They weren't a web business, saw it as a threat to their platform leverage, and so just left it abandoned and stagnant for years. Google is simultaneously better and worse: they won't leave it stag…

Personally, I think Google already does whatever it wants similar to what Microsoft did. They do offer standards for discussion but it will implemented and expect other vendors to follow suit.

Re: What will a Chromium-only Web look like?

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Post by gostsamo »

ecmascript wrote: post #6
rapnie wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still, I do a lot of browsing the web and did not encounter broken pages on Firefox, luckily.

On the websites I work on I have stopped testing on Firefox for the most part. I do testing once in a while, but I'd rather spend the time to make the site more accessible since it's a larger group than Firefox users.

So, how should I feel as a blind user who uses Firefox? :)

Re: What will a Chromium-only Web look like?

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Post by mnd999 »

Probably we have to start again with something different in the same way as the web replaced all the other protocols (gopher, usenet etc). I’m not what that looks like but it should be cleaner, simpler, open and blockchain-free.

Re: What will a Chromium-only Web look like?

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Post by harry8 »

ecmascript wrote: post #6
rapnie wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still, I do a lot of browsing the web and did not encounter broken pages on Firefox, luckily.

On the websites I work on I have stopped testing on Firefox for the most part. I do testing once in a while, but I'd rather spend the time to make the site more accessible since it's a larger group than Firefox users.

If you abandon stanards which requires testing with different implementations you absolutely abandon acessibility for vastly more people in the future, imho.

Re: What will a Chromium-only Web look like?

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Post by dr-detroit »

Santosh83 wrote: post #11
ecmascript wrote: post #3

It will not be Chromium only. It will be chromium and safari and it already is. Apple will most likely never open up unless forced, which usually sucks but is a good thing due to the monopoly of the market. Firefox is responsible for such a low percentage it's sad (the stats I have for the sites I work on it's usually on the 1-2% range). I think it's mainly because of the horrible leadership at Mozilla. I want to use…

> Firefox is responsible for such a low percentage it's sad (the stats I have for the sites I work on it's usually on the 1-2% range). I think it's mainly because of the horrible leadership at Mozilla. I want to use Firefox and promote it but every time I think they've changed Mozilla does something new that boils my blood. This is repeated ad nauseum on this site and needs to be called out. The Mozilla management ma…

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Re: What will a Chromium-only Web look like?

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Post by ecmascript »

gostsamo wrote: post #14
ecmascript wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the websites I work on I have stopped testing on Firefox for the most part. I do testing once in a while, but I'd rather spend the time to make the site more accessible since it's a larger group than Firefox users.

So, how should I feel as a blind user who uses Firefox? :)

Happy that I use my time to try to help your disability and make your life easier rather than make sure that a web browser that hardly anyone uses work 100% correctly.

Surely, most of the time Firefox will work just fine or at least good enough and by that standard I am sure that a site that has put some focus for it being easier to read with a screen reader is more important?

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