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I agree with the post, but it should be noted that there's a big difference between Chromium -- an open source project -- and IE 6 being the de-facto browser en
by phn 8y ago
I agree with the post, but it should be noted that there's a big difference between Chromium -- an open source project -- and IE 6 being the de-facto browser engine on the web.
- AlexandrB 8y agoI think the difference is mostly theoretical. Consider the proposed extension changes: no one seems to like them, but Google will be able to push them through anyways. Maintaining a Chromium fork is a huge undertaking that only a few companies would be willing to invest in.
- zzzcpan 8y agoMaintaining a fork is much less of an undertaking, than reimplementing all Chromium quirks. Hence plenty of Chromium forks exist, but only one last barely competing browser.
- jonathanyc 8y agoNo nontrivial Chromium forks exist, to my knowledge. Do you know of any?
- zzzcpan 8y agoI don't think Opera, Vivaldi, Brave, Yandex browser are trivial by any measure. Heck, even something small and independent, like ungoogled-chromium, is in no way trivial.
- Yoric 8y agoI haven't checked, but it was my understanding that – outside of the UX – these are all very shallow forks. Does anyone know more about this?
- jonathanyc 8y agoYes, these are all very shallow forks that mostly “just” change UI. That guy doesn’t understand what nontrivial means.