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Chrome is advertising based and is not very interested in external contributions, so we'll ignore that. Firefox is developed completely in the open and accepts
by thristian 5y ago
Chrome is advertising based and is not very interested in external contributions, so we'll ignore that.
Firefox is developed completely in the open and accepts external contributions, but it's deliberately focussed on end-users, not contributors.
WebKit is not a browser, but you can build a browser on top of it, and many people have. I don't think Apple is very interested in individual contributions, but I believe that (for example) the GTK+ port is part of the official source tree and that's not Apple code. Of course, it'd be very difficult to change anything about the core code in a way that Apple didn't like.
Then you've got the True Open Source web browsers - things like NetSurf, Dillo, elinks, w3m, lynx. Completely open-source, open to contributions, and generally only work on static documentation pages, not everyday browsing. That seems to be as good as it gets without the financial backing of a multinational corporation.
- Macha 5y ago> Firefox is developed completely in the open and accepts external contributions This is overstating the reality. For much of these controversial changes, supporting documentation in Bugzilla links to sources like Google docs, JIRA and Figma, which are private to Mozilla employees. Similarly it was discussed that much of the development discussion moved from Mozilla IRC (now Matrix) to the private Slack instance.