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		disconnected on Nov 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome breaks the Web So this is a good thing because the gatekeeper is Google instead of Facebook? How's about adhering to standards? We gave Microsoft a hell of a time for not adhering to standards, but Google gets a free pass now? Because "performance"? (read: some negligible gains on some synthetic benchmarks) Then let's stop pretending: let's scrap the W3C and go back to the good old days of "Best viewed on Netscape Navigator at 800x600".

ko27 on Nov 6, 2017 [–]

Let's also complain about Mozilla because they are removing Flash support and thus breaking backwards compatibility. It's obvious that they are all 'evil'.

jimktrains2 on Nov 7, 2017 | [–]

Was flash a standard? Also, flash still works, it's a click away with a button in the location bar for sites that try to use it.

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