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We've at least seen some recent examples around browser vendors like Brave and Vivaldi deciding not to take some of Google's Chromium changes around browser ext
by kevsim 7y ago
We've at least seen some recent examples around browser vendors like Brave and Vivaldi deciding not to take some of Google's Chromium changes around browser extension handling [0].
So while this is not as compelling as a community controlled fork, it at least shows the alternative vendors are not willing to blindly swallow Google's changes.
[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-brave-vivaldi-to-ignore-chromes-anti-ad-blocker-changes-despite-shared-codebase/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-brave-vivaldi-to-ignore-...
- adrianN 7y agoNot merging upstream changes eventually kills smaller vendors with maintenance burden as the diffs grow larger and larger.