Soldato
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Something I've not heard of before today but now got some insight on what Manifest is and its version numbers. That's great that Firefox (my browser anyway) is supporting the old tech and is working ways around the new tech to keep things relevant / current.
There is also something called 'browser wars'.
The 1st browser war was in the late 1990s / early 2000s where it was Netscape vs Internet Explorer. Because IE was bundled with Windows, people (especially new users) flocked to that and it had something like 95% of the browser market share by 2002. This is similar to how MSN won the instant messaging war from around the same era.
The 2nd browser war was in the mid 2000s to mid 2010s. This was IE (but later abandoned by MS) followed by Edge, now up against Chrome. Edge had its own browser engine called EdgeHTML which made it a considerably different browser. However, more and more browsers adopted Google's Blink engine, with Brave, Opera and Vivaldi being recent 'victims' and Edge has also fallen down the same pit as that's Blink-based as well. So this has pretty much ended the 2nd browser war now, with the majority of browsers being Blink-based.
There are now only 2 major survivors left. That's Firefox with its Gecko engine (same as what Netscape used) and Apple's Safari with the WebKit engine. With deliberations on Manifest V3 in 2023, there could be a schism of internet users switching over to Firefox or Safari which would begin the 3rd browser war. Of the Blink-based browsers, I would like to see Brave doing better than the others as that's more privacy-focused which makes it the lesser of the evils.
Edit: corrected some gamma.
Something I've not heard of before today but now got some insight on what Manifest is and its version numbers. That's great that Firefox (my browser anyway) is supporting the old tech and is working ways around the new tech to keep things relevant / current.
There is also something called 'browser wars'.
The 1st browser war was in the late 1990s / early 2000s where it was Netscape vs Internet Explorer. Because IE was bundled with Windows, people (especially new users) flocked to that and it had something like 95% of the browser market share by 2002. This is similar to how MSN won the instant messaging war from around the same era.
The 2nd browser war was in the mid 2000s to mid 2010s. This was IE (but later abandoned by MS) followed by Edge, now up against Chrome. Edge had its own browser engine called EdgeHTML which made it a considerably different browser. However, more and more browsers adopted Google's Blink engine, with Brave, Opera and Vivaldi being recent 'victims' and Edge has also fallen down the same pit as that's Blink-based as well. So this has pretty much ended the 2nd browser war now, with the majority of browsers being Blink-based.
There are now only 2 major survivors left. That's Firefox with its Gecko engine (same as what Netscape used) and Apple's Safari with the WebKit engine. With deliberations on Manifest V3 in 2023, there could be a schism of internet users switching over to Firefox or Safari which would begin the 3rd browser war. Of the Blink-based browsers, I would like to see Brave doing better than the others as that's more privacy-focused which makes it the lesser of the evils.
Edit: corrected some gamma.
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