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> How? It never stops puzzling me why anyone thoght Chrome would be any different.

It is different! Microsoft never released even a single line of IE. Chromium on the other hand is completely open source, and we have that to thank for all the fun things that came of it from VSCode, to Brave browser, to Puppeteer. Things are WAY better now than in the dark IE days.

How?

It was open source from start. Yes, Firefox as well, but it had Google as a brand behind it which put lots of trust in it because of the engineering talent they have.

Google's motto used to be "don't be evil," and there was a time when people honestly believed they meant it. Hell, I think there was a time when Google did honestly mean it.

> The company’s focus gradually shifted towards transforming their browser dominance into business growth

It hasn’t shifted. It’s always been there.

It puzzles me how anyone can believe Firefox will be different, especially with examples to the contrary already existing.