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   muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 02:59:43 JST muesli

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   • Sean Coates

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   Not that I disagree, but that makes it sound like there wasn't a non-proprietary browser before Firefox 1.0, which definitely wasn't the case.

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     Sean Coates (sean@scoat.es)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 03:00:05 JST Sean Coates

     Firefox is 20 years old today. I was using it as “Phoenix” before Firefox 1.0.

     That was a real time of hope. Despite Microsoft’s coup attempt with Internet Explorer, we—the makers and users of the Web—prevailed. There was an alternative to the corporate control and vendor lock-in, and we embraced it.

     The IE-only web was decimated. It was a victory for the platform we loved so much.

     I wish we weren’t letting so much of that same pre-Firefox monoculture story play out with Chrome, right now.