Firefox maker moans about operating systems

Stefan Mileschin · 27th September 2022, 13:02

Microsoft, Google, and Apple using their browsers to shut down browser rivals

Big Cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation are hacked off that Microsoft, Google, and Apple are using their operating systems to steer users to their browsers and stacking the deck against rivals.

Mozilla said that browsers and browser engines were the heart of the web so using an operating system to favour one had a monopolistic ripple effect that leads to few choices for users, a drop in innovation, a lack of openness, low quality and insecure code and plagues of locusts.

In its report with the punch title Five Walled Gardens: Why Browsers are Essential to the Internet and How Operating Systems are Holding Them Back, Mozilla researchers wrote that OS makers were stifling competitors and holding back innovation.

https://fudzilla.com/news/55551-fire...rating-systems

27th September 2022, 13:02	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,575	Firefox maker moans about operating systems Microsoft, Google, and Apple using their browsers to shut down browser rivals Big Cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation are hacked off that Microsoft, Google, and Apple are using their operating systems to steer users to their browsers and stacking the deck against rivals. Mozilla said that browsers and browser engines were the heart of the web so using an operating system to favour one had a monopolistic ripple effect that leads to few choices for users, a drop in innovation, a lack of openness, low quality and insecure code and plagues of locusts. In its report with the punch title Five Walled Gardens: Why Browsers are Essential to the Internet and How Operating Systems are Holding Them Back, Mozilla researchers wrote that OS makers were stifling competitors and holding back innovation. https://fudzilla.com/news/55551-fire...rating-systems

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