And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is… interesting to say the least.

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    Google is hindrance to open web, like IE7 was with ActiveX.

    Only difference is that IE7 wanted developers to develop for IE7, while Google also want to fully control the web and bend it according to its needs

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      And there’s zero chance of some other company dethroning Chrome like IE was. The only way that happens is with government intervention to protect the free market.

      But of course antitrust enforcement is dead in this country, so that’s not happening. Just look at the obviously anticompetitive Activision acquisition that went through recently. Too many politicians slept through their economics classes, and they think that giant corporations are good for consumers.

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        I’m old enough to remember when the line was “IE has 90% marketshare and nothing’s going to change that”

        Yes the landscape is different now, but these are free apps and there are competitors out there. It takes only a few minutes to switch to Firefox. Google’s hold on this market is not as ironclad as people may think.

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          Mozilla Foundation is kept alive with Google money, for the express purpose of being able to show there’s an alternative and that Chrome is not technically a monopoly. But Firefox will never challenge Chrome on anything that truly matters.

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          If Google gets this going, Firefox has the choice of either adopting the same DRM support or being perceived as that browser where websites don’t work properly like they do in Chrome. It’ll be hard to persuade people who don’t understand what’s going on to adopt it out of principle. Something like this already happened with the media DRM support that browsers currently have.

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            And I already hate the media DRM stuff and have it disabled in my browsers.

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        Too many politicians slept through their economics classes, and they think that giant corporations are good for consumers.

        They just think that giant corporations are good for politicians.