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Magic Lasso suggests that Chrome might be the new IE (www.magiclasso.co)

submitted 1 week ago by smegforbrains@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 week ago

It is more that both browsers are by their respective companies to create the Internet they want.

IE intentionally gimped higher level browser usage as a way to defend the Windows monopoly. Web apps in IE would never be developed to the quality they could compete against natively run programs in Windows.

Chromium works to keep the Internet open and platform agnostic, but keeps tracking and cookies because Google makes money on the Internet by serving ads online.