Google and Mozilla: partners for better browsers →

4 months ago ～

Peter Kasting (Google Employee, Chrome developer):

People never seem to understand why Google builds Chrome no matter how many times I try to pound it into their heads. It’s very simple: the primary goal of Chrome is to make the web advance as much and as quickly as possible. That’s it. It’s completely irrelevant to this goal whether Chrome actually gains tons of users or whether instead the web advances because the other browser vendors step up their game and produce far better browsers. Either way the web gets better. Job done. The end.

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So it should be obvious that it’s in Google’s interests to invest heavily in Chrome from both the engineering and marketing perspectives, so that on the one hand users have as a viable choice the best web browser we can make, and on the other hand the other vendors have maximum pressure to make their browsers better.

I don’t use Firefox anymore, but I rather would like to see Google on it than Bing or Yahoo!…