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A browser is troubling but you can opt-out by using a competitor (I think that's a reason why Google still supports Firefox). It's when they start buying ISPs t
by ticks 14y ago
A browser is troubling but you can opt-out by using a competitor (I think that's a reason why Google still supports Firefox). It's when they start buying ISPs that you should treat it seriously because that's an attempt to control the platform from the street to the servers.
- jjensen 14y agoThe main reason Google provides money to Mozilla is to buy billions of search queries from them via default placement in the search bar. That's it.
- sevenstar 14y agoGoogle is replacing webkit on their Android software with their own Chrome mobile browser. It may already be done.
- tsuraan 14y agowebkit is the rendering engine used by chrome (and safari and konqueror and probably others). In what way are they replacing it with chrome?
- sevenstar 14y agoThat is the terminology used here. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224057/Google_accelerates_Android_browser_updates_with_mobile_Chrome http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224057/Google_accele...
- elemeno 14y agoThey're replacing the current android browser with one which is based on the (desktop) Chrome browser. It still uses webkit as the rendering engine though. It the everything-but-the-rendering-engine that they're changing.