Mozilla says it has been working for years to create equal opportunities with other platforms and OS providers but has encountered many difficulties in making this work. It recently published a list of problems it faces to make its problems more concrete.
Mozilla says it aims to create a balance between browser providers and platform and operating system providers. Mozilla is the developer behind the Firefox browser.
Because it gets too little help from major providers such as Microsoft, Google and Apple, it can, however, not succeed. As a result, there is an unfair competitiveness for other providers.
Many problems for alternative providers
The big tech companies would often favour their own browser in their platforms and operating systems and since the company considers the internet browser the main access route to the internet, the big tech companies actually determine the access route.
These include tricks such as making it more difficult to download another alternative browser, ignoring or resetting a default browser preference, or having to use the default browser in an operating system to download third-party browsers.
Platform Tilt dashboard
To fix these problems, Mozilla says it has been in talks with major tech companies for years but there is no progress. To keep the problems on its radar, though, it is now publishing a tracker. The so-called Platform Tilt dashboard lists all sorts of problems. For example, banning third-party browser engines in the Apple AppStore, importing browser data into Android and setting the default browser in Windows environments.
Mozilla is calling on other browser providers to publish a similar list of issues themselves. In addition, the Firefox developer is asking Microsoft, Google and Apple to fix the listed problems as soon as possible.
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