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> With Microsoft switching to Chromium, Firefox is now the only viable I'm not sure I understand your point. Is there a public statement from Microsoft that th

> With Microsoft switching to Chromium, Firefox is now the only viable I'm not sure I understand your point. Is there a public statement from Microsoft that they are following Google on this? I don't know what Microsoft is going to do, but nothing stops them from keeping the API fully working. And if Firefox was based on Chromium too, nothing would stop Mozilla from keeping the API working either. Although I expect some forks to follow Google on this, namely other ad-tech companies with web browsers, like Yandex.

aiscapehumanity 7y ago
MS new edge successor browser is built on chromium?
- cptskippy 7y ago
  Yes, it's called Edge.
- fibers 7y ago
  In 2019 the team basically switched to webkit/chromium
  - mda 7y ago
    Blink/Chromium
wayneftw 7y ago
I'd rather use (and build for) any WebKit browser over Firefox, so I'm hoping Microsoft Edge does not implement the "Chrome extension manifest v3" and that they release Edge for Linux ASAP. Aside from my feelings about the technical qualities of their products - Mozilla is clearly not more trustworthy than Google or Microsoft either since they put non-removable ads and tracking extensions directly into Firefox and lock developers out of their extension store for purely political reasons.
- ravenstine 7y ago
  Citation? I've never heard of that.
  - wayneftw 7y ago
    Look up Firefox Pocket and Firefox Gab/Dissenter.
    - aioprisan 7y ago
      Pocket, the easy to enable/disable way to save websites for reading later, and Gab, the far-right social network, as exposed by Columbia Journalism Review?
      - duck___sauce 7y ago
        Pocket which by default suggests "pocket worthy" articles and ads on the new tab page (which after a while you get a feel for what "pocket worthy" actually means). The other day I got one that made the case that both private schools and homeschooling should be illegal.
    - andrepd 7y ago
      >Pocket I don't follow. How does a built in extension to save pages to a cloud account equate with the systematic and pervasive abuses of privacy that are Google's business model? >Gab I was not aware of this platform. Here are some lovely snippets from Wikipedia: >Gab stated that conservative, libertarian, nationalist and populist internet users were its target markets. What a lovely "free speech" platform. Can't imagine why it was "censored", where by censored we actually mean: we will not distribute this on our website, though you are still free to install it on your machine if you want. Come on... Porn is also legal, and also not available on the Firefox website, and also freely available for you to get elsewhere.
      - ymck 7y ago
        Personally, I think that Gab is a dumpster fire that it's best to avoid, yet I am very sensitive to browsers making content/editorial decisions for their users. From a security perspective teaching users to jump around browser protections is never a good idea. It's going to bite us in the butt at some point.
ymck 7y ago
Agreed. And so far in the dev releases, they are stripping out all the Google services.

aiscapehumanity 7y ago

MS new edge successor browser is built on chromium?

cptskippy 7y ago
Yes, it's called Edge.
fibers 7y ago
In 2019 the team basically switched to webkit/chromium
- mda 7y ago
  Blink/Chromium

wayneftw 7y ago

I'd rather use (and build for) any WebKit browser over Firefox, so I'm hoping Microsoft Edge does not implement the "Chrome extension manifest v3" and that they release Edge for Linux ASAP. Aside from my feelings about the technical qualities of their products - Mozilla is clearly not more trustworthy than Google or Microsoft either since they put non-removable ads and tracking extensions directly into Firefox and lock developers out of their extension store for purely political reasons.

ravenstine 7y ago
Citation? I've never heard of that.
- wayneftw 7y ago
  Look up Firefox Pocket and Firefox Gab/Dissenter.
  - aioprisan 7y ago
    Pocket, the easy to enable/disable way to save websites for reading later, and Gab, the far-right social network, as exposed by Columbia Journalism Review?
    - duck___sauce 7y ago
      Pocket which by default suggests "pocket worthy" articles and ads on the new tab page (which after a while you get a feel for what "pocket worthy" actually means). The other day I got one that made the case that both private schools and homeschooling should be illegal.
  - andrepd 7y ago
    >Pocket I don't follow. How does a built in extension to save pages to a cloud account equate with the systematic and pervasive abuses of privacy that are Google's business model? >Gab I was not aware of this platform. Here are some lovely snippets from Wikipedia: >Gab stated that conservative, libertarian, nationalist and populist internet users were its target markets. What a lovely "free speech" platform. Can't imagine why it was "censored", where by censored we actually mean: we will not distribute this on our website, though you are still free to install it on your machine if you want. Come on... Porn is also legal, and also not available on the Firefox website, and also freely available for you to get elsewhere.
    - ymck 7y ago
      Personally, I think that Gab is a dumpster fire that it's best to avoid, yet I am very sensitive to browsers making content/editorial decisions for their users. From a security perspective teaching users to jump around browser protections is never a good idea. It's going to bite us in the butt at some point.

ymck 7y ago

Agreed. And so far in the dev releases, they are stripping out all the Google services.