Ask HN: Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Mozilla for web browsers?

  • Posted 2 years ago by mattwilsonn888
  • 97 points
I hear what seems many a valid complaint about Google's conflicts of interest in managing Google Chrome and how it has down-stream effects on Mozilla and other web browsers. What exactly is keeping developers from making a fully featured open source web browser not at the mercy of Google or the browser's developers?

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