• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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    Ladybird is not threatened to be killed by whatever anybody but the developers do.

    It absolutely is. If Google forces incompatibility on it (like it did with Edge) ordinary users won’t switch. Because the majority of ordinary users are still deep in the ecosystem.

    All it takes is for Google to block high quality streaming on YouTube and the browser will never go outside of 2-3% market share.

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      1 day ago

      I think not being a default browser means that, for now, it’s not for ordinary users anyway.

      • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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        But we’re discussing the potential future of the browser, not its current state. Right now it can barely render a modern page without crashing (but not always).

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        What’s not bad? Ladybird sitting at floor-leves of market share?

        If we want to threaten the status quo in any way, it absolutely is. Firefox has 2.26% and - in terms of defining standards or forcing changes upon Chromium - it’s 100% irrelevant.

        • plyth@feddit.org
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          To threaten the status quo it’s bad but to have fun programming a browser it’s not bad.