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#21
Firefox.
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Sephwe don't need more browsers to compete for market value*sighs*
dark.faerie · #23*sighs*I actually know quite a bit about it, I live it everyday with RomUlation, with the amount of money RomUlation spends on servers we need to make some back, and the only way we can do that is by having visitors, since there are other sites competing for them we have to strive to become the better place for visitors to get their downloads. I get demand and supply and how it relates to business, but you're talking a generic case that doesn't apply to the browser market.Currently there are 4 main browsers.Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari and Opera. They're all free meaning that the only difference between them are how they work as in features and security and rendering.Now, competition would promote innovation in the browsers - but honestly, that's not what the web needs right now. The internet has been evolved so rapidly from a small network between researchers to a global net for hundreds of millions of people, this rapid development has involved a lot of bandaid solutions rather than thoroughly thought out solutions; one prime area for that would be browsers and web languages such as HTML and CSS, they don't need innovation right now, they need a thorough work through where bugs and annoyances are removed, and then they need browsers to support it. Currently browsers don't support even 80% of the web language that is theoretically available, even FireFox isn't perfect here, though, IE is still the main evil.What I'm trying to say in a very convoluted way is that browsers should compete on features - not how they render a webpage, working together on that would archive so much more than working against each others, and the end result is that developers like myself have to spend hours upon hours making sure their website works in 3 different versions of the 4 major browsers. Assuming a developer is paid - that's spent money that doesn't grow, so ultimately competition in the browser market right now is not good for the economy as a whole, and even worse it's not good for users because many security faults can also be attributed to working against each other instead of working together.
then you obviously know nothing about business/markets...
we actually DO need more "competitors" to help stabilize the economy and keep the prices of things down (in competing for more consumers to buy their product/service, putting the price down is inevitable)
Hence why monopoly is discouraged or illegal (otherwise one company could charge whatever price they want and get away with ripping consumers off, because they have no competitors and therefore have all the customers for that industry)
Noop · #30Google (like always) just wants to f'in get in on anything and everything that competes against Microsoft, this includes their shitty browser chrome. Shitty because it only works on windows, and that's enough of a problem right there.Google Chrome is a good browser, however extensionless/ crippled it may be. There's enough great features that are available right off the bat, it renders pages pretty quickly from my experience, and the look is fresh. And that's a flawed argument. Tell me when a current version of IE will run natively on Linux.I use Firefox as the "installed"/main browser and Google Chrome as a portable browser.
dark.faerie · #23*sighs*But we're not buying the browsers?Firefox for me ^^
then you obviously know nothing about business/markets...
we actually DO need more "competitors" to help stabilize the economy and keep the prices of things down (in competing for more consumers to buy their product/service, putting the price down is inevitable)
Hence why monopoly is discouraged or illegal (otherwise one company could charge whatever price they want and get away with ripping consumers off, because they have no competitors and therefore have all the customers for that industry)on topic: firefox pwns all - screw the other browsers.