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If Google started behaving like you envision, the community could always fork the last known good version of Chromium. When not using Firefox I'm using an ungo
by jmnicolas 6y ago
If Google started behaving like you envision, the community could always fork the last known good version of Chromium.
When not using Firefox I'm using an ungoogled version of Chromium (from the Woolys site) I didn't see much difference with the original Chrome.
Anyway as the recent news showed, Mozilla's management is extremely wasteful of their resources. If the project was just paying devs to work on Firefox, much less money would be needed and if needed the whole thing could probably be funded by donations.
- Yizahi 6y agoOf course there isn't much difference because Chromium is basically Chrome. There is no single independent Chrome/Chromium fork today meaning that they are the same. Everything Google adds to Chrome get down to Chromium. Sure you can (maybe) cut some telemetry but functional changes stay. If Google decides to switch some protocol handling, or deprecate stuff, or add stuff it all propagates to all mods of Chrome.
- whatsmyusername 6y agoEdge. Which you will see increase in market share.
- Yizahi 6y agoEdge is dead and closed. Chrome-Edge will indeed gain market share and it is better than nothing, but I dispute that it is an independent browser making independent decisions about browser engine and other important stuff (not about GUI and telemetry).
- whatsmyusername 6y agoThat's what I meant. Though I guess they've decided to take the google route in deploying manifest v3. So I'll probably be dumping them for firefox (or rather, reversing how I use them. Use firefox for my 'logged in' browser and edge as my 'noscript, no cookies, no history, default browser')