Google announces brand new web browser core, so does Mozilla

[JMH]

One day, two new rendering engines announced, three browsers involved!

When you wait ages for a bus, and then three come along at once, it's not a coincidence: it's a side-effect of queuing and traffic lights.

But what about when three browser vendors make announcements on the same day?

Robust competition? Serendipity? Coincidence? Or a bit of all of them?

Google announced Blink, a fork of the Webkit browser that aims to build a smaller and safer rendering platform based on what Google is unashamedly referring to as a "healthier codebase."

Opera, which is retiring its own rendering engine Presto and replacing its browser core with Chromium, the open-source flavour of Google Chrome, indirectly announced its commitment to the Blink-based flavour of Chromium.

Google announces brand new web browser core, so does Mozilla | Naked Security

 

[AceInfinity]

Mozilla: "You guys have a new core? Oh yeah, well we have one too! So what makes you so special?"
Google: "Well our core is fast"
Mozilla: "Ours is too, that's why we released it, to demonstrate the competitor that you guys are up against"

lol! :rofl12:

I find the Mozilla/Google battle quite funny. It seems publicity on one side seems to stir things up for the other side as well, because this is all just a competitive game. I love it though, I think it drives the Mozilla developers to continue on making Firefox better, and vice versa for any Chrome lovers out there. This is why I don't take competition seriously in the tech world, I think it is a great thing. I'm sure it drives Microsoft too.

Whether they are bluffing or not though, or just did some minor tweaks... I can still say that from FF 19.0.2, to 20.0, was a good performance boost.

You release so many posts about articles JMH, I don't feel the need to go anywhere else to find the most up to date news haha.

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[GZ]

Competition is GOOD for a healthy environment... Take a look at the US Automotive industry pre-70's... There was no competition... The Big 3 worked in Tandem, and the consumer suffered for it...

Same thing goes in any business... Competition drives advancement.