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Magic Lasso suggests that Chrome might be the new IE (www.magiclasso.co)
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Bloated and complacent, Chrome might be on the path to playing the same role as IE was playing 15 years ago, shunned by developers and technologically inferior to other browsers.

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[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 63 points 16 hours ago

At the moment though, there is no single likely alternative to Chrome’s dominance. But perhaps that’s for the better.

First off, why is it for the better not having no alternative? Secondly Firefox IS an alternative to Chrome.

BTW, this Magic Lasso is an ad blocker for Safari.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 5 points 6 hours ago

BTW, this Magic Lasso is an ad blocker for Safari.

Between this, and Magic Lasso quoting themselves, this blog post is really hard to take seriously

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

It is a PR article

Its like the Firefox Brave comparison from Mozilla

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 12 points 14 hours ago

I'm hoping this bit is what they meant

Maybe a collection of browsers, all supporting open web standards, with substantial, though not dominant marketshare is the answer.

Instead of having chrome replaced by some other browser and the cycle repeating, the author might want a fair balance of different browsers eating away at their market share?

I will still recommend Firefox to regular users, and Zen for users that want something new/different (Arc users for example)

[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 points 14 hours ago

Maybe they really was comparing the dominance position only, not being a usable alternative. Although Firefox does not work for everything and Chrome or other browsers are required instead (such as streaming with Xbox games in browser), so there is that. If we only speak about market dominance and the ability to change that, yes, then I agree that Firefox/Mozilla is not in a position to do that at the moment.

Firefox should be used alone for the fact that it has superior addon support for ad blockers. That's a real world difference and reason, not just some ideology (as it was it in the past for me).

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

Firefox should be used alone for the fact that it has superior addon support for ad blockers. That’s a real world difference and reason, not just some ideology (as it was it in the past for me).

Agreed! Up till now, it was on par with chrome for functionality / user experience. Moving forward it will be better because it will still have proper ad-blockers

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