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I think that we are getting too dependent on this browser/engine (Chrome/Chromium/Electron and the many others derivatives). This will create serious issues in
by edhelas 9y ago
I think that we are getting too dependent on this browser/engine (Chrome/Chromium/Electron and the many others derivatives).
This will create serious issues in the future regarding how Google is caring about respecting the market, the standards and their users in general.
Hopefully Mozilla has done a quite impressive work on Firefox those past few months and I personally don't see any advantages anymore for Chrome.
- mcny 9y ago> Hopefully Mozilla has done a quite impressive work on Firefox those past few months and I personally don't see any advantages anymore for Chrome. I use nightly and it is pretty good. Quite a few things are broken in nightly in Android but I can use nightly as my main browser (besides for hangouts which Google has yet to implement). Edit, we have pocket on Firefox though so https://getpocket.com/blog/ https://getpocket.com/blog/
- deusum 9y agoFF Quantum is quite nice, highly recommended.
- fenwick67 9y agoIt seems crazy to me how may projects depend on Chromium and V8 directly. Hopefully with Firefox's new improvements some of this will change.
- JustSomeNobody 9y agoMore to come with headless Chrome a thing.
- oatmealsnap 9y agoHeadless Firefox is a thing, too.
- oatmealsnap 9y agoAside from community support, what is preventing Firefox's JS engine from being used to power a JS runtime?
- bzbarsky 9y agoNothing really, and people use it for that. For example, https://github.com/0ad/0ad/tree/master/libraries/source/spidermonkey https://github.com/0ad/0ad/tree/master/libraries/source/spid...