With nearly 70% share in the market of web browsers, Google Chrome reinforces every day a little more dominance. The success of the browser at the base would it be due to the sabotage of competitors? That's Johnathan Nightingale, who was vice president of Mozilla, responsible for Firefox.
How Google deliberately harmed Firefox to impose Chrome
Prior to Chrome's arrival on the browser market, Google and Firefox had excellent reports and were even linked by a partnership that Nightingale reported generated 90% of Mozilla's revenue for Google Search SEO. But Google finally got into the browser market and it was the beginning of strange problems for Firefox.
The Mountain View firm has not broken its partnership with Mozilla, but would have undertaken a subtle undermining. "Ads for Chrome had started appearing in the Google engine, alongside search results for Firefox. Gmail and Gdocs had started experiencing performance issues and bugs only on Firefox. The demo sites were wrongly blocking Firefox for incompatibility. "
Mozilla was reporting errors to Google, which promised to look into cases that were becoming more commonplace. But each time, it took a long time. At the same time, users tired of performance issues were leaving the ship. Nightgale claims to be in favor of thinking: "Do not ascribe malice to what is only incompetence." But for him, it is clear that Google engineers were far from incompetent.
That means what it means. The former Mozilla executive accuses Google of sabotaging Firefox and this is not the first time the company has been subject to such accusations. Last December, a former Microsoft official accused him of putting a line of code in YouTube to deliberately slow down the web application on the Edge browser. It was a few days after Microsoft announced that it was going to switch to the Chromium kernel.
