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.

  • _pi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    This is hilariously silly from a developer perspective because Safari exists. Safari is literally the bane of my existence in WebDev because it’s usually the browser that does something weird and not according to standards (which is classically the IE problem). Apple WebKit has significantly deviated from KHTML/Blink in ways that are worse for developers. Chrome does inject defaults to standard interfaces to make websites “work better” where Firefox is much more strict about the standard.

    To pretend that Chromium/Blink/V8 is worse than Firefox or any other competitor is just burying your head in the sand. Blink and V8 are extremely highly optimized and standards driven, there’s a reason Node didn’t choose SpiderMonkey. Dev Tools have significant difference in speed and usability, and I’m a Firefox daily driver and use it for development.

    What Google is doing that’s ridiculous and stupid is using it’s weight to influence the design of Chromium such as the deprecation and removal of Manifest V2 to prevent adblockers under the guise of “safety” or whatever, as well as driving more telemetry and anti-features into the Chromium core product.

    Also of course “MagicLasso” doesn’t say Safari is the IE because it’s a adblocker for Safari. lol

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    15·
    2 days 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·
    2 days 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.