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It's unfortunately in part because Google holds a monopoly on a couple of services. Geolocation as an example doesn't work in Chromium all of the time. It falls
by Kequc 9y ago
It's unfortunately in part because Google holds a monopoly on a couple of services. Geolocation as an example doesn't work in Chromium all of the time. It falls at the whim of Google. In terms of services and functionality Chrome has a monopoly, it's used by devs because they need to support it.
I tried to develop a map based application and I needed to code in a fallback for when geolocation fails just so that I could finish developing it. Where I had a short list of random locations.
Google needs to lose its browser monopoly, but I'm not even sure at this point how that can happen. The internet allows monopolies to flourish like no other industry or sector known before. Many politicians are pushing for more monopolies on the internet, things like net neutrality come to mind.
- pllbnk 9y agoYou are clearly doing something more advanced than the vast majority of developers who are coding interactive self-validating forms with React or Angular and are still swearing by Chrome, even though they do not even touch those edge cases where they would see something not working on other browsers. And that makes me sad because they, and their family members and friends, are giving Google this market share which could be distributed to other browsers which are as good and better than Chrome.
- nawgszy 9y ago>to other browser which are as good and better than Chrome In which ways? I use Chrome because I'm used to it by now, and it doesn't seem to be lacking for features or extensions. I say this as a full stack engineer who spends plenty of time building React front-ends and using the dev tools. Can you tell me what I might gain by switching away from Chrome?
- reitanqild 9y agoCan you tell me what I might gain by switching away from Chrome? - Vertical, nested tabs - A good feeling inside
- pllbnk 9y agoWhat community would gain: competing browsers getting more traction due to larger share in the browser usage, better web standards support in the long run (remember Internet Explorer?). What you would gain: be less dependent on Google, use open source (e.g. Firefox, Chromium, Iridium), better extensions as Chrome doesn't support third party, better performance. Your argument about dev tools is the same as all others are saying. But everybody comfortably ignores the fact that dev tools are built into Chromium and Chrome just happens to use the same, so it is not special in that space.
- nawgszy 9y ago>But everyone comfortably ignores the fact that the dev tools built into Chromium and Chrome are the same I comfortably ignore it from ignorance and not convenience for my position, so feel free to help change my mind here. Looking at an analysis[0], I see a few downsides to Chromium vs Chrome (presented as negatives when switching to Chromium from Chrome): - not evergreen - worse media support - worse flash support (I watch a reasonable amount of MLB.tv, where this is for whatever reason still important) So I am making a small amount of sacrifice for... the good of the community and, apparently, "better web standards support". Can you flesh out your argument for this better web standards argument? I am but a child of the web development sphere and arrived at a time where "fuck IE" was an overwhelming sentiment, so I never cared to pay attention to it, nor why it was hated, and consequently I don't follow your implication there. [0]: http://www.bloomtimes.com/chromium-vs-chrome/ http://www.bloomtimes.com/chromium-vs-chrome/