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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by hbn »

prmoustache wrote: post #82
hbn wrote: post #46

I've been trying to find a Chrome replacement since they finally cut the cord on manifest v2. I know Firefox is the "right" option, and I'm fully in favour of chipping away at Chromium marketshare (even if the EU is determined to solidify it further with demands of Apple to allow non-Safari rendering in iOS) but I've used it in the past, and even if it's fine 99% of the time, there is that occasional website that has…

What about ignoring that 0.1% of the websites that are so badly made they don't work on firefox? Do they really deserve your attention?

Sometimes yes. That 0.1% of sites could be me trying to buy a movie ticket or something. I'm not gonna cancel plans with a friend to see a movie because I need to protest Google that badly.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by jnwatson »

kube-system wrote: post #31
viraptor wrote: post #13

It was nice knowing them. > less than 10% of organizations have adopted a secure browser Yes Gartner, let's invent a "secure enterprise browser", because there's too much interoperability on the web - there's definitely some business on splitting that up. I'm sure atlassian people love that idea.

> let's invent a "secure enterprise browser", because there's too much interoperability on the web Enterprise browsers are an existing category, and even Google offers an enterprise version of Chrome. The idea of an enterprise browser is that all of the interoperability that has been built has been between the desktop and web servers. Most desktop browsers don't have many features that allow an organization to manage…

Enterprise Chrome is just regular Chrome with remote policy enforcement. It isn't a different browser.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by flkiwi »

prmoustache wrote: post #82
hbn wrote: post #46

I've been trying to find a Chrome replacement since they finally cut the cord on manifest v2. I know Firefox is the "right" option, and I'm fully in favour of chipping away at Chromium marketshare (even if the EU is determined to solidify it further with demands of Apple to allow non-Safari rendering in iOS) but I've used it in the past, and even if it's fine 99% of the time, there is that occasional website that has…

What about ignoring that 0.1% of the websites that are so badly made they don't work on firefox? Do they really deserve your attention?

Or keep Chrome (or Chromium or even Edge if you have it installed anyway) for the rare use case when Firefox won't work?

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by flkiwi »

vinnymac wrote: post #40

I find Atlassian to be a strange buyer of The Browser Company and there products. I don’t see the philosophical match here. Does Atlassian want them to become an Enterprise AI arm?

Trying to bootstrap a new-generation Lotus Notes from parts, with Dia as the container.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by afavour »

whalesalad wrote: post #86
sniffers wrote: post #60

Building Dia was such a colossal mistake, and the folks running TBCNY seem to not understand. They believe they are reinventing the wheel, and every time I hear them talk I cringe.

Selling for over half a billion dollars sounds like zero mistakes were made.

Doesn't mean it isn't a mistake, just means you've conned someone into thinking your mistake was a good choice.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by sniffers »

whalesalad wrote: post #86
sniffers wrote: post #60

Building Dia was such a colossal mistake, and the folks running TBCNY seem to not understand. They believe they are reinventing the wheel, and every time I hear them talk I cringe.

Selling for over half a billion dollars sounds like zero mistakes were made.

They talk about their product like it's the reinvention of fire. Seems awful low for that. And if they made no mistakes, surely they wouldn't need to be acquired? Surely they'd be making their own money?

And there are plenty of stories of how they treat their employees that suggest there are absolutely mistakes being made.... company is a joke.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by afavour »

julianozen wrote: post #77

Lots of respect to Josh Miller, the CEO. TBC got to a difficult place. They built a product that was very very good, but evidently not good enough to support the capital they raised or the workforce they hired. I wish they had managed to keep Arc around. It's a product I'd glad pay for, and it seems like maybe there are enough fans that subscriptions could've supported a smaller team. Hopefully Atlassian doesn't kill…

> Lots of respect to Josh Miller, the CEO. TBC got to a difficult place. They built a product that was very very good, but evidently not good enough to support the capital they raised or the workforce they hired.

Was this not predictable from day one? There's no money in making a web browser. That ought to be obvious to anyone, let alone a superstar CEO. That they would end up selling the company seemed like a foregone conclusion.

I don't mean to disrespect the guy but I don't see much to credit here either. He had a problem, used VC cash to ignore it, then sold the company. Hardly uncommon in the tech world.

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