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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.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @06:47PM
Of course it would give an artificial inflation to chromiums share of the market but.. quite honestly who cares? Mozilla is not producing a high quality product, and they are not the champions of users rights they once were (if anything they may have limited that). Their voice just doesn't convince me to listen, nor should it to anyone else. Their opinion should be listened to no more than googles or microsofts. Worse maybe since people are still convinced they champion the users cause (hello DRM, bye bye alsa support?). I hope to see chromium benefit from this move despite my dislike for both google and microsoft, and my dependence on firefox forks.