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What happened to Firefox?

La (semplice) risposta su Quora di Thomas Paine a questa semplicissima domanda è molto interessante:

All the answers about speed and Webkit vs. Gecko are great. Even though I’m still a Firefox user I also think that, subjectively, they are true. I don’t think, however, that those are the reasons that the tide has turned against them. Mozilla/Firefox did a great job of educating people about what a browser was and that you could use something besides the “e” that was already there when you started up your Dell for the first time. Then this happened […] There was no way firefox was ever going to be able to compete with a banner on the home page of the worlds most popular site.

Effettivamente avevo sempre pensato a Chrome come a un browser superiore nel rendering (e fino a poco fa anche nell’interfaccia), ma avevo sottovalutato quanto potesse essere importante quel quadratino in alto a destra quando accedevo a Google. Le altre risposte sono anch’esse interessanti, consiglio una lettura di tutto il thread, il quale anche se tratta una questione ormai quasi obsoleta, offre parecchi spunti di riflessione, sulla storia di Firefox e sul corso di tutto il software.

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