It’s possible, but I don’t know for sure. I refuse to run Chrome because we don’t need another browser monopoly to stifle innovation.
The Internet Explorer era was terrible, and we STILL have broken things that only support a now dead browser. So many things went all in on proprietary Microsoft standards for Internet Explorer, and now you cannot use them. Most older camera DVRs and stand alone ip cameras fall into that category.
Another example: I can’t say which company, but a very large company you’ve almost definitely heard of, required that all of their vendors buy all raw material from their subsidiary, but you had to use a site that not only was Internet Explorer only, but an extremely out of date Internet Explorer only. basically you had to have an xp machine up to a couple years after xp was no longer supported, to order several thousands of dollars of raw material.
All it would take for this to happen again is for Google to release a new API or “feature” that legally or technically a browser like Firefox cannot implement. Then if they decide they don’t like that standard or Google actually miraculously gets broken up for being a monopoly/anti competitive everything that uses it will again no longer be usable.
tinfoil hat time, but i’m pretty sure that’s why they were trying to introduce web bundles a few years ago. thankfully they seem to have flopped, but if they hadn’t and chromium introduced a closed source interpreter i think that would have been the end of anything non-chromium
It’s possible, but I don’t know for sure. I refuse to run Chrome because we don’t need another browser monopoly to stifle innovation.
The Internet Explorer era was terrible, and we STILL have broken things that only support a now dead browser. So many things went all in on proprietary Microsoft standards for Internet Explorer, and now you cannot use them. Most older camera DVRs and stand alone ip cameras fall into that category.
Another example: I can’t say which company, but a very large company you’ve almost definitely heard of, required that all of their vendors buy all raw material from their subsidiary, but you had to use a site that not only was Internet Explorer only, but an extremely out of date Internet Explorer only. basically you had to have an xp machine up to a couple years after xp was no longer supported, to order several thousands of dollars of raw material.
All it would take for this to happen again is for Google to release a new API or “feature” that legally or technically a browser like Firefox cannot implement. Then if they decide they don’t like that standard or Google actually miraculously gets broken up for being a monopoly/anti competitive everything that uses it will again no longer be usable.
tinfoil hat time, but i’m pretty sure that’s why they were trying to introduce web bundles a few years ago. thankfully they seem to have flopped, but if they hadn’t and chromium introduced a closed source interpreter i think that would have been the end of anything non-chromium