> Other browsers have to put in significant effort just to play catch up and can't really offer any new renderer/js feature without Chrome's blessing.
Microsoft still runs the dominant operating system! They have a huge opportunity here to complete. The same way Chrome advertises on Google.com, Microsoft can provide the default fucking browser that is HUGE.
> Plus, we have a decade's worth of evidence that Chromium
Chrome is 12 years old. It's been super popular for less than a decade.
Its multiprocess architecture, by far its most long term scalable feature, was behind Internet Explorer's (they started multiproc trend with, iirc, IE8).
> Even if we set aside the problems with market share the Chromium team has consistently put out a faster engine than Firefox or IE.
>Microsoft still runs the dominant operating system! They have a huge opportunity here to complete. The same way Chrome advertises on Google.com, Microsoft can provide the default fucking browser that is HUGE.
They've had that advantage since Chrome came out. Didn't stop them from losing almost all their market share.
>Its multiprocess architecture, by far its most long term scalable feature, was behind Internet Explorer's (they started multiproc trend with, iirc, IE8).
Chrome has been technologically ahead of IE since it came out.
>Acquire Servo, do better? That's my entire point.
So they developed Edge (pre-chromium) but still losing shares for some reason.
IMO previous Edge's engine(EdgeHTML) wasn't bad but GUI is bad. I remembered that D&D support was added to Edge after a few years from release.
Google monetizes the hell out of Chrome, the browser.
Google doesn't monetize developing Blink/Chromium. Since Edge only uses that part they don't really have to care about Google's monetization and do their own. If Google stops Chromium development or goes the wrong way at some point, which is inevitable, MS will have to step in, but until then it's free real estate.
They can build all that proprietary stuff with Chromium just as well, so why should they choose Firefox?
> Google doesn't monetize developing Blink/Chromium.
I disagree here. Of course they do. They could not monetize Chrome successfully without:
a) Having huge amounts of control over the direction of the web
b) Having a best-in-class browser that people want to use
If IE had every feature of Chrome with regards to management and monetization it would still not matter, people do not want IE. If IE were a drastically better browser than Chrome, they would.
Choosing Servo gives them an opportunity to leap ahead of Chrome in areas they care about.
Microsoft still runs the dominant operating system! They have a huge opportunity here to complete. The same way Chrome advertises on Google.com, Microsoft can provide the default fucking browser that is HUGE.
> Plus, we have a decade's worth of evidence that Chromium
Chrome is 12 years old. It's been super popular for less than a decade.
Its multiprocess architecture, by far its most long term scalable feature, was behind Internet Explorer's (they started multiproc trend with, iirc, IE8).
> Even if we set aside the problems with market share the Chromium team has consistently put out a faster engine than Firefox or IE.
Acquire Servo, do better? That's my entire point.