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mook on Sept 12, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installatio...

roc did, supposedly, in late 2007. See https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/ancient-browser-wars-hi...

It dates from back when Mozilla seemed to be losing quickly, and actually rebranding Chrome (with their own changes) might have made sense. I'm glad they didn't, of course.

I have no reason believe he, or anybody else at Mozilla, currently thinks that way.

gsnedders on Sept 12, 2018 [–]

Obviously by 2013 his views had changed:

See https://robert.ocallahan.org/2013/02/and-then-there-were-thr... on Presto's demise (except it lives on after death in Opera Mini, to this day!)

And https://robert.ocallahan.org/2013/04/blink.html on the Blink fork.

andrewshadura on Sept 14, 2018 | [–]

According to the developers of Opera, they have actually switched to Blink for Opera Mini pretty soon.

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