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posted by mrpg on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-are-doomed! dept.

Mozilla's CEO is not enthusiastic about Microsoft's switch to Chromium:

When Microsoft announced that its Edge browser would be revamped using Chromium, the internet's response was generally quite positive. Edge is far from the worst browser on the planet, but it's certainly not what we'd call a fan favorite. As such, even the slightest indication that it could be changed significantly would have been welcome news for many.

However, it would seem that "many" doesn't include one individual in particular: Mozilla CEO Chris Beard. In a blog post published today, titled "Goodbye, EdgeHTML," Beard expressed his frustrations with Microsoft's decision.

"By adopting Chromium, Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google," Beard writes in the post. "This may sound melodramatic, but it's not. The "browser engines" — Chromium from Google and Gecko Quantum from Mozilla — are "inside baseball" pieces of software that actually determine a great deal of what each of us can do online."

Microsoft's switch to Chromium could be a big boon for Google's own implementation.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday December 09 2018, @05:10PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday December 09 2018, @05:10PM (#771993) Journal

    As expected, browsers have a toggle to disable Flash or JavaScript, but not animated SVG, and maybe not canvas or HTML5 video.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @05:42PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday December 09 2018, @05:42PM (#772014) Homepage Journal

    -s.

    I can block notifications only from a specific website, and even then, only when it first asks permission to so-crudely annoy the crap out of me.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @09:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @09:38AM (#772293)

    Plugins can block canvas.
    And browser audio recording.
    And browser fingerprinting.
    And seriously wtf how did we get here :(