isn't that antithetical to the whole open source movement? 90% market share I mean. If the open source folk believe half of what they say about freedom, choice, etc. then they should be hoping for at best that each browser has a market share in proportion
to the number of browsers out there. So 90% market share would be devestating.
labrat wrote:The reason firefox adoption is so attractive to me personally as a linux user, is that if firefox becomes the norm on windows, I using linux will see the exact same webpage as somebody on windows when I'm developing web content.
Interesting take. Barring total adoption of Firefox though (kind of a quixotic goal?), seems like web developers just have to live with different presentation depending on browser/version/hardware. Come to think of it, how will hardware/settings ever be factored out?
Still, abstractly it would be interesting indeed if Firefox could capture 90%+ of the market, due to this consistency advantage, and the fact that it's open source and thus portable to anywhere. A true test of the potency of the open-source idea I guess.
