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 Chrome controls ~73% of global desktop browser market share. Add Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi) and the figure exceeds 80%. Mozilla's Gecko (Firefox) is the only viable independent rendering engine.
-Developers test and build for Chrome only. Agriculture teaches us how dangerous monocultures are.
+Developers test and build for Chrome only. A monoculture means one bug, one policy change, or one company decision affects everything built on it.
 ===== The Engine Breakdown =====
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 ===== Why It Matters =====
-When one company controls the dominant rendering engine, they effectively control which web standards are implemented, which APIs exist, and what the web can do. [[protocols:start|Alternative protocols]] sidestep this entirely — they don't use browsers at all.
+When one company controls the dominant rendering engine, they effectively control which web standards are implemented, which APIs exist, and what the web can do. [[protocols:start|Alternative protocols]] sidestep this entirely: they don't use browsers at all.
 ===== See Also =====