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It would be nice if it disabled itself when another password manager is installed...
Keychain is opt-in, users choose wether they want to use it or not when configuring their iPhone for the first time.
While Google, Microsoft, and Apple clearly factor into the equation here (especially Google — when Chrome first came out the marketing for it was a real force to contend with, and they've aggressively pushed Chrome ever since), the other big thing is that Mozilla ceased to be a leader. They started chasing Chrome and put Firefox on the back burner, and now they're reaping what they've sown. I am a huge proponent of w…
The quality of Firefox has nothing to do with the anti-competitive actions of platforms. This affects Vivaldi, Brave, and all the 3rd-party web browsers (or the platform browsers on other platforms, e.g. Chrome on Windows). Mozilla doesn't make this argument because their browser share is lower than it used to be, but because diversity, not domination, is the goal.
I'm on a macbook currently using firefox for my default browser, haven't been forced to use safari. On my windows rig I use chrome, haven't been forced to use edge. This is provably false. Haven't been forced to use any specific browser across various operating systems and hardware.
- https://www.howtogeek.com/744102/windows-11-makes-it-hard-to...
- https://www.howtogeek.com/768727/microsoft-calls-firefoxs-br...
On macOS it's easy to change this, but things like the "tips" notification it displays after a major update still opens on Safari, ignoring your setting.
Without commenting on the claims, it's interesting to consider how times have changed. Microsoft originally lost an antitrust lawsuit [1] over little more than tying Internet Explorer into their OS and not readily including alternatives. They not only lost that case, but the initial judgement was that the company was to be broken up. Microsoft started spending dramatically more money on "lobbying" following that. [1]…
> They not only lost that case, but the initial judgement was that the company was to be broken up.
That judgement was also vacated by the appeals court who concluded that the district court "failed to provide an adequate explanation for the relief it ordered".
Is their Google search deal (~$400m a year) that expires next year being renewed? If not, might explain some of the desire to bite the hand that has fed it for so long.
I'm on a macbook currently using firefox for my default browser, haven't been forced to use safari. On my windows rig I use chrome, haven't been forced to use edge. This is provably false. Haven't been forced to use any specific browser across various operating systems and hardware.
[1] E.g. I've only really encountered them in one place so far, and it's easily possible to avoid that place, too.
[2] That one place I certainly know of is the lock screen in case you've kept the default "Show random pretty pictures" setting turned on.
Does Firefox have a future? I'm writing this from Firefox, having used it ever since the days when Firefox releases used to have launch parties, and tabs was the revolutionary killer feature. Let me rephrase the question: does Gecko/Spidermonkey have a future? I think it's clear the Firefox branding will live on, since it is Mozilla's crown jewel. But in today's landscape, you can target WebKit (Apple) and V8/Blink (…
Instead we're dealing with the "diversity" of the web (HTML,CSS,JS) engines and endless arguments around Manifest v3, etc. So many precious man hours are going to waste.
Without commenting on the claims, it's interesting to consider how times have changed. Microsoft originally lost an antitrust lawsuit [1] over little more than tying Internet Explorer into their OS and not readily including alternatives. They not only lost that case, but the initial judgement was that the company was to be broken up. Microsoft started spending dramatically more money on "lobbying" following that. [1]…
Amazing that 20 years on, the USA has essentially given up on anti-trust tech regulation. Facebook acquired and repeatedly copied its closest competitors, no problem. Adobe buys up its competitors, no problem. Google aggressively pushes Chrome and fails to makes its own websites fully compatible with competitors, carry on. Apple refuses to give users the freedom to run their own apps on their purchased phones, no big…
More than that: Google actively prevents competitors from working when competitors would work fine without any extra "help"