> competitors such as Microsoft proved that they no longer have the capacity to develop a modern browser
This is incorrect. They absolutely can as demonstrated by the fact that former Edge works great, has better hardware acceleration than Chrome, and consumes less power.
However, they are not willing to anymore, which is a huge concern for future innovations in that domain.
It is correct, but it hinges on your interpretation of the phrase "modern browser." Edge was falling behind on implementing the web spec compared to Chrome (among other things.)
> This is incorrect. They absolutely can as demonstrated by the fact that former Edge works great, has better hardware acceleration than Chrome, and consumes less power.
If Edge had all those things but could only render HTML4 and below, would it be considered a "modern browser" still? I would say no. That's an extreme hypothetical but it was similar to the future Microsoft saw for Edge, and a major factor in the switch to Chromium.
Edge working great is quite an exageration, in my experience. Barely workable, with it's own host of weird bugs, that Microsoft did their typical slow-rolling and prevarication on handling. Tying it to a specific operating system version was also a poor decision if they wanted adoption.
"they are not willing to anymore" wtf does this mean?
Have you looked at chromium commits activity?
Microsoft is actively working on improving chromium, especially improving it's integration with windows 10.
Convergence create synergies instead of reinventing the wheel and make Google no longer the only player in the development of chromium.
Firefox has ~600000 commits
Chrome has ~700000.
Do you realize the order of magnitude of improvements that we users should have, if mozilla devs had worked in improving chrome instead??
No those numbers are far too much to realize for a human brain, but at least we can realize that we don't realize.
Btw hello double standards, why shouldn't QT, WPF or GTK have redundant implementations?
This is incorrect. They absolutely can as demonstrated by the fact that former Edge works great, has better hardware acceleration than Chrome, and consumes less power.
However, they are not willing to anymore, which is a huge concern for future innovations in that domain.