I agree with this, but have a (maybe related) comment/question.
This may be naive, but having used various WebKit browsers as well as Firefox, one aspect of the discussion that seems to be missing is end user extensibility. I notice that none the WebKit browsers support the customization that is present in Firefox (or other Gecko browsers, for that matter). This has mattered a lot to me for features like those provided by KeySnail (giving Firefox a very Emacs-like set of keybindings), Firebug, Greasemonkey and Stylish.
I suspect, though I haven't confirmed, that WebKit simply doesn't support certain kinds of extensibility along these lines. Regardless, I think advocating a monoculture where such a situation might arise is myopic. In fact, I doubt Chrome would be what it is today without Firefox...it seems that its extension system is clearly based on Greasemonkey and its development tools were inspired by Firebug.
This may be naive, but having used various WebKit browsers as well as Firefox, one aspect of the discussion that seems to be missing is end user extensibility. I notice that none the WebKit browsers support the customization that is present in Firefox (or other Gecko browsers, for that matter). This has mattered a lot to me for features like those provided by KeySnail (giving Firefox a very Emacs-like set of keybindings), Firebug, Greasemonkey and Stylish.
I suspect, though I haven't confirmed, that WebKit simply doesn't support certain kinds of extensibility along these lines. Regardless, I think advocating a monoculture where such a situation might arise is myopic. In fact, I doubt Chrome would be what it is today without Firefox...it seems that its extension system is clearly based on Greasemonkey and its development tools were inspired by Firebug.