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minus-squarebernieecclestoned@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·1 year agoAren’t Firefox funded by Google in order to present a false sense of competition in the browser market?
minus-squareDrDeadCrash@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 year agoGoogle pays to be the default search in Firefox, it was Bing for a while.
minus-squarenintendoit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoAlso it pays to keep mozilla alive.It helps in defending anti-competitive lawsuits. Sad to say there are only two engines available for the open web.(Not considering Safari as that is only available on apple)
minus-squareSatelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-21 year agoThe WebKit engine Safari uses is still open source, Gnome Web and Konqueror use it. It definitely has a small non-apple userbase but it’s an option
Aren’t Firefox funded by Google in order to present a false sense of competition in the browser market?
Google pays to be the default search in Firefox, it was Bing for a while.
Also it pays to keep mozilla alive.It helps in defending anti-competitive lawsuits.
Sad to say there are only two engines available for the open web.(Not considering Safari as that is only available on apple)
The WebKit engine Safari uses is still open source, Gnome Web and Konqueror use it. It definitely has a small non-apple userbase but it’s an option