<story><title>Chrome Won</title><url>https://andreasgal.com/2017/05/25/chrome-won/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cies</author><text>So Mozilla lost Firefox OS. And their browser share is smaller then Chrome, and then it was, but still top tier and winning from M$.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m much less pessimistic.&lt;p&gt;Besides a cross platform and extensible browser we see also the following coming out of Mozilla:&lt;p&gt;* Rust, a modern low-level programming language with cutting edge &amp;quot;safety&amp;quot; build in at zero runt time cost, luring many system programmers.&lt;p&gt;* Servo, tomorrow browser, from scratch, in Rust.&lt;p&gt;* Thunderbird, x-platform desktop email client (interesting for those not trusting the cloud enough).&lt;p&gt;* MDN, everything MSDN and w3school wish they could be. :)&lt;p&gt;A lot with revolve around privacy and safety in the future, a space that Mozilla is very well positioned to florish in.&lt;p&gt;Chrome is a good product. But I prefer Firefox. And seeing what is becoming of Servo I will soon start using that. Form me Firefox has won, and is not at all losing. I dont need the &amp;quot;most popular&amp;quot; browser, I need the most secure one.&lt;p&gt;And when I see what programming languages Google came up with... (Seriously? Is Go the best money can buy?) Then I think Rust shows single handedly that Mozilla beats Google in that arena as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StevePerkins</author><text>I understand that people who like rust REALLY like Rust, but you do realize that your examples of a purpose for existence consist of:&lt;p&gt;1. A programming language, that hasn&amp;#x27;t yet shown &amp;quot;escape velocity&amp;quot; to go beyond D and other would-be-C++-successors in traction.&lt;p&gt;2. The only major application of that language... a pre-alpha browser engine, which may or may not eventually replace the engine in a browser that is seriously declining in market share with no reversal in sight.&lt;p&gt;3. A desktop email client, from which Mozilla has repeatedly made clear their intentions to divest and move on.&lt;p&gt;4. A JavaScript and HTML reference manual.&lt;p&gt;Mozilla is an organization with over $400 million in annual revenue.  Where that money is going baffles me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Chrome Won</title><url>https://andreasgal.com/2017/05/25/chrome-won/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cies</author><text>So Mozilla lost Firefox OS. And their browser share is smaller then Chrome, and then it was, but still top tier and winning from M$.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m much less pessimistic.&lt;p&gt;Besides a cross platform and extensible browser we see also the following coming out of Mozilla:&lt;p&gt;* Rust, a modern low-level programming language with cutting edge &amp;quot;safety&amp;quot; build in at zero runt time cost, luring many system programmers.&lt;p&gt;* Servo, tomorrow browser, from scratch, in Rust.&lt;p&gt;* Thunderbird, x-platform desktop email client (interesting for those not trusting the cloud enough).&lt;p&gt;* MDN, everything MSDN and w3school wish they could be. :)&lt;p&gt;A lot with revolve around privacy and safety in the future, a space that Mozilla is very well positioned to florish in.&lt;p&gt;Chrome is a good product. But I prefer Firefox. And seeing what is becoming of Servo I will soon start using that. Form me Firefox has won, and is not at all losing. I dont need the &amp;quot;most popular&amp;quot; browser, I need the most secure one.&lt;p&gt;And when I see what programming languages Google came up with... (Seriously? Is Go the best money can buy?) Then I think Rust shows single handedly that Mozilla beats Google in that arena as well.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bobajeff</author><text>If they run out of funding many of those great things they are working on won&amp;#x27;t get the resources they need.&lt;p&gt;The amount of funding they get is in direct correlation to how much market share they have in Firefox at the time they negotiate a search deal with one of the big search sites.</text></comment>