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The Brave Cookie Monster - Brendan Eich

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Brave: A Successful Programmer and Entrepreneur

Mozilla's Firefox has been declining for a while since 2011. Chrome is now dominating, but it's not getting to the 95% that Internet Explorer reached at its height. Apple makes Safari default browser on Mac OS and the only engine you can use on iOS. Brave starts looking like a browser that blocks ads by default, which is very rare. In 2003 or 2004 people were doing Firefox and I said, I can't start the browser wars again. Or nobody will give up Internet Explorer till doomsday. That's just dumb. Even a mature category can be disrupted.

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