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Curious, what makes Chromium better in your opinion? I have probably just touched the surface of the dev tools on both and haven‘t used any features that I wou

Curious, what makes Chromium better in your opinion? I have probably just touched the surface of the dev tools on both and haven‘t used any features that I would be missing on either.

dubcanada 7y ago
It's a blank browser, has barely any "Google" specific stuff in it ready to go. It is easy to develop for, doesn't require cross language compiling (rust/c++), builds fast, easy to understand how the different parts work (at least for a browser developer it should be), has documentation, is meant to be used to develop your own browser.
- withinboredom 7y ago
  Are you sure Chromium builds fast? lol, it takes my laptop with 12 cores and 64gb of ram over an hour to compile from scratch, not counting the ~20gb of git history to download (I maintain an internal build at work).
  - dubcanada 7y ago
    Well lol it is a rather complex piece of software, so maybe take that one back. Firefox is comparable in that department.
    - bzbarsky 7y ago
      Having compiled both: it's not. On the same hardware, Firefox takes ~4x less time to compile than Chromium for me...
      - microcolonel 7y ago
        Which platform were you compiling on, and when? It's been some years now, but Chromium used to build with MSVC on Windows.
        I_AM_A_SMURF 7y ago
        I worked on both, it's no comparison. Firefox builds in about 40min on my macbook pro, Chromium takes like 4 hours?
        tim-- 7y ago
        I can't even get Chromium to build on my MacBook Pro, so there's that. (15-inch, 2018, 16GB RAM) What magic are you using to be able to build Chromium?
        microcolonel 7y ago
        AFAIK you'd need to limit the compiler threads, and hopefully the linker doesn't run out of memory. 16GiB of memory is really not enough.
        I_AM_A_SMURF 7y ago
        Limiting the threads as somebody elses said. For chromium no one really builds it on a laptop, everyone in my team used a build server or a 32 core monster desktop.
        bzbarsky 7y ago
        Sometime in the last 6 months, on Mac and Linux both.

Curious, what makes Chromium better in your opinion? I have probably just touched the surface of the dev tools on both and haven‘t used any features that I would be missing on either.

dubcanada 7y ago

It's a blank browser, has barely any "Google" specific stuff in it ready to go. It is easy to develop for, doesn't require cross language compiling (rust/c++), builds fast, easy to understand how the different parts work (at least for a browser developer it should be), has documentation, is meant to be used to develop your own browser.

withinboredom 7y ago
Are you sure Chromium builds fast? lol, it takes my laptop with 12 cores and 64gb of ram over an hour to compile from scratch, not counting the ~20gb of git history to download (I maintain an internal build at work).
- dubcanada 7y ago
  Well lol it is a rather complex piece of software, so maybe take that one back. Firefox is comparable in that department.
  - bzbarsky 7y ago
    Having compiled both: it's not. On the same hardware, Firefox takes ~4x less time to compile than Chromium for me...
    - microcolonel 7y ago
      Which platform were you compiling on, and when? It's been some years now, but Chromium used to build with MSVC on Windows.
      - I_AM_A_SMURF 7y ago
        I worked on both, it's no comparison. Firefox builds in about 40min on my macbook pro, Chromium takes like 4 hours?
        tim-- 7y ago
        I can't even get Chromium to build on my MacBook Pro, so there's that. (15-inch, 2018, 16GB RAM) What magic are you using to be able to build Chromium?
        microcolonel 7y ago
        AFAIK you'd need to limit the compiler threads, and hopefully the linker doesn't run out of memory. 16GiB of memory is really not enough.
        I_AM_A_SMURF 7y ago
        Limiting the threads as somebody elses said. For chromium no one really builds it on a laptop, everyone in my team used a build server or a 32 core monster desktop.
      - bzbarsky 7y ago
        Sometime in the last 6 months, on Mac and Linux both.