Azula to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoIf Google succeeds with the new DRM policy, will that affect functionality of browsers like firefox which uses a different engine?message-square125fedilinkarrow-up1287
arrow-up1287message-squareIf Google succeeds with the new DRM policy, will that affect functionality of browsers like firefox which uses a different engine?Azula to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square125fedilink
minus-squareTriStarlinkfedilinkEnglish22•edit-22 years agoI doubt Firefox will give in. Much more likely is that websites start blocking it until you cannot use the internet without Chromium
minus-square@gobbling871@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoFirefox will be in a tight corner assuming every other browser vendor picks this up. They can decide to go against it but Firefox does not live in isolation. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/
I doubt Firefox will give in. Much more likely is that websites start blocking it until you cannot use the internet without Chromium
Firefox will be in a tight corner assuming every other browser vendor picks this up. They can decide to go against it but Firefox does not live in isolation.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/