We Need Chrome No More
Hypothetically speaking, suppose we didn&#x27;t care about privacy at all. In that case, what are the disadvantages of a single browser engine taking over the market?<p>I suspect one disadvantage is that it&#x27;s harder to innovate. Specifically, your new browser engine has no hope of sticking if all websites are heavily customized to Blink, rather than to open standards. It may seem that it&#x27;s not a problem if Blink is open sourced. However, writing a new engine that works <i>exactly</i> like some legacy engine is nearly impossible, even if that legacy engine is open sourced. OTOH, writing a new engine to the specifications of well-designed standards is much more realistic, since presumably those standards are (a) clearly spelled out, (b) written with the idea that they can be implemented without a million lines of legacy code.<p>Of course, this assumes that the community <i>can</i> create high quality and efficient standards. It&#x27;s not obvious, given how difficult it&#x27;s been to achieve in the past, when there was more competition between browsers.<p>Does it sound about right? Any other disadvantages I haven&#x27;t thought of?