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There isn't anything inherently wrong with the chromium web engine. Lot's of open source browsers use it's backend without having to communicate to google whats
by jonfw 7y ago
There isn't anything inherently wrong with the chromium web engine. Lot's of open source browsers use it's backend without having to communicate to google whatsoever.
It's fast and it works everywhere
- ori_b 7y agoAnd where Google goes, it goes too. Forking and keeping up is likely too expensive.
- jonfw 7y ago> Forking and keeping up is likely too expensive. There are no limits to the number of open source projects that suggest otherwise.
- pcwalton 7y agoThose forks of Chromium don't make changes to the core. Things like ungoogled-chromium restrict themselves to smaller changes around the edges (no pun intended).
- The_rationalist 7y agoAnd somehow it's supposed to be more efficient to totally duplicate the effort like Firefox does?
- olyjohn 7y agoIf anybody is duplicating the effort, it's Chromium/Blink/KHTML or whatever it is now. Firefox pre-dates it all by years. I love how twisted up the history of the web browser has become.
- ori_b 7y agoFirefox is mostly funded by Google at this point too. I don't have solutions, but I don't like that the web standards are fully owned by an ad company.