Which-is-beter aside, this seems like a very healthy mix for competition & inovation:
75% split roughly even between 3 players. The big three are all very different (Community led Open Source, Bundled with the OS & Mega Company led Open Source). Developers can still feasibly test for major browsers. Everyone will be aware they have a choice. There is room in the remaining 25% for new players to emerge.
Really, it's always struck me as odd that Microsoft hasn't thought about open sourcing IE. Presumably there's a tangled mess of proprietary code that they would have to sort out first, but it's already the case that the majority of users are browsing the web using open source browsers. There's no longer any hope of financial incentive for being closed source. In fact, it's more of a liability than anything these days...
75% split roughly even between 3 players. The big three are all very different (Community led Open Source, Bundled with the OS & Mega Company led Open Source). Developers can still feasibly test for major browsers. Everyone will be aware they have a choice. There is room in the remaining 25% for new players to emerge.
Seems ideal.