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1. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2017 14:14:42 EDT Sean Tilley
   Weird cover story, but I really hope the best for #Mozilla. Absolutely one of my favorite companies. #Firefox
   
   FIREFOX FIGHTS BACK
   
   

   Inside Mozilla, CEO Chris Beard and his team are preparing to outmaneuver Google’s Chrome browser. The battle begins in November, with their release of Firefox 57.

   1. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2017 01:42:07 EDT Sean Tilley

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      What does it take to cause a switch? Decentralization of day-to-day services. The browser is dead at the hand of services, long live the decentralized service browser. If Mozilla built a browser with decentralized search ala Yacy as a core feature I would switch, because I would feel empowered about wresting the search results presented to me from payed rankings with added privacy. If the browser came with a service for nomadic decentralized publishing ala Hubzilla, I would switch.
      
      What would it take for you to switch browser?
   2. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2017 06:00:36 EDT Sean Tilley

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      They're really giving far too much credit here to the public when it comes to "choosing a browser". I bet the number of people that make a conscious choice about their browser are statistically insignificant.
   3. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2017 06:20:27 EDT Sean Tilley

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      Opinion: people switched to Google Chrome because IE sucked at the time - it did not even work with Sharepoint, Firefox is chosen because it works nearly as well as Chrome, because of extensions, web development and a bit more privacy?
   4. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2017 06:55:15 EDT Sean Tilley

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      I stick to Firefox because of the plugins to block third party request. Would this be a reason for you @Haakon Meland Eriksen ?
      
      /edit/ Or why do you prefer Chrome?
   5. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2017 07:29:14 EDT Sean Tilley

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      As a Google product, I assume Chrome is a data-collection tool.
   6. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2017 07:46:09 EDT Sean Tilley

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      Firefox addons are great, IE addons sucked too, Chrome supports web standards like HTML5, CSS3, WebGL, WebRTC a lot faster than Firefox. Edge 16 scores higher than Firefox!
      
      https://html5test.com/compare/browser/mybrowser/chrome-58/edge-16/ie-11/safari-10.2.html
   7. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2017 07:56:18 EDT Sean Tilley

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      Right, internet explorer is so abysmal that I can believe significant numbers of people deliberately sought a better browser. However, their reason for choosing Chrome might have been driven by the dominance of using Google search, where the Chrome browser is constantly advertised for easy download. You have to know about Firefox to find and download it. Since the Chrome browser is fast, as it should be since it is produced by a very wealthy company with a vested interest in mining the data of its users, people like it for performance reasons. I'm a big Firefox supporter but to me it's very much like Hubzilla or any of these privacy respecting open source apps: without corporate support and advertising of the software, it will remain the underdog and possibly become completely irrelevant depending on how hard the corporations want to push it.
   8. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2017 08:07:43 EDT Sean Tilley

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      Yeah, money helps and Google's engineers could start their browser with lessons learned, but I think they did it well - less screen real-estate to menubars from the start, address bar and search bar in one, sandboxing, each tab its own process etc, etc. - it worked better, faster and sucked us all in with their centralized services - search, spamfree Gmail, Docs, YouTube...