Is Chrome the new IE? – Magic Lasso Adblock
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With a global browser market share of over 65%, Google’s Chrome has become the target of criticism and disdain, much like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer once was. Is Chrome facing similar challenges to Internet Explorer (IE) and will this lead to its downfall?

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.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    1·
    7 months ago

    At the moment though, there is no single likely alternative to Chrome’s dominance. But perhaps that’s for the better.

    First off, why is it for the better not having no alternative? Secondly Firefox IS an alternative to Chrome.

    BTW, this Magic Lasso is an ad blocker for Safari.

  • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
    1·
    7 months ago

    Not a fair assessment. Chromium and Blink are still open source, cross platform and standards compliant. With IE not only it was closed source but the Mac OS and UNIX ports had a different rendering engine with different behaviour and bugs.

    I personally do dislike Google, but that’s another topic.

      • Libb@jlai.lu
        0·
        7 months ago

        They chose Chromium. Which is the base for Chrome (and all other relevant browsers).

        I know we live in a time of why-give-a-fuck-about-facts, but I see two ‘relevant browsers’ in the top ranking that are not chromium-based:

        Chrome 66.68%
        Safari 18.07%
        Edge 5.25%
        Firefox 2.65%

        (https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share)