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Mozilla CEO Warns Microsoft's Switch to Chromium Will Give More Control of the Web to Google

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

takyon writes:

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 acid andy on Sunday December 09 2018, @03:26PM (2 children)

    by acid andy (1683) on Sunday December 09 2018, @03:26PM (#771953) Homepage Journal

    I thought of that but I'd be seriously amazed if they managed to extinguish anything of value to Google. I could maybe see them poisoning Chromium somehow but Google have the resources to just make a new browser whenever they want (or continue with their own branch of the source and maybe rebrand it if the name is tainted).

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday December 09 2018, @04:23PM (1 child)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Sunday December 09 2018, @04:23PM (#771974) Journal

    My first thought was that it's a huge, loser move to concede that they can't make a decent browser on their own and have to use somebody else's code. M$ is a charter member of the corporate software club who feels not the slightest shame in using others' code, for all they scream about piracy and try to deeply embed DRM in software.

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday December 09 2018, @08:27PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Sunday December 09 2018, @08:27PM (#772080) Journal

      It's too bad Google couldn't charge MS a patent fee for using it.

      Payback would be such a nice bitch.

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