▲ 41 ▼ Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla (lunduke.locals.com) submitted 3 years ago by Engywuck@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml 48 comments fedilink hide all child comments The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.
[–] ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 34 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yes. Because Microsoft lost an entire gigantic anti-trust case over building the Browser into the OS. Of course it loaded faster when MS poisoning the well of open web standards with embrace and extend. And we have the records to prove this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social -2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) You're merging two different events into one. I'm talking about the rise of IE. When it was an outright better browser. You're talking about events that happened when it was at its peak popularity, but was an outright outdated browser, coincidentally just when Chrome was ramping up. Just like Firefox is now over Chrome. Except now, with Google doing things MS never even dreamed of, there isn't whisper of any investigation or sanctions from the EU. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social -2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) You're merging two different events into one. I'm talking about the rise of IE. When it was an outright better browser. You're talking about events that happened when it was at its peak popularity, but was an outright outdated browser, coincidentally just when Chrome was ramping up. Just like Firefox is now over Chrome. Except now, with Google doing things MS never even dreamed of, there isn't whisper of any investigation or sanctions from the EU. permalink fedilink source parent