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> How is choosing Firefox over Chromium going to help in that regard? Chromium is absolutely dominant in that space, since basically all major browsers except
by Sebb767 5y ago
> How is choosing Firefox over Chromium going to help in that regard?
Chromium is absolutely dominant in that space, since basically all major browsers except Safari and FF are based on it. Creating your own stack is hardly an option and Safari isn't forkable, so if you don't want to support the near-monopoly of the Chrome browser stack Firefox is the only option.
Now, I do agree that FF made some very questionable decisions recently, but so did Chrome (see Manifest v3) and the way it's going right now, we'll have yet another Internet Exporer-like scenario on our hands soon.
- ekianjo 5y agoInternet explorer was proprietary. Bad analogy.
- Sebb767 5y agoIt's still mostly controlled by a single company. The fact that it's open source makes the situation a tad better, but it's still a lot of power and network effect centered on a single entity.
- mattkevan 5y agoDidn’t Google fork WebKit to make Chrome? If I remember correctly, the first few versions of Chrome were actually fully WebKit.
- marcellus23 5y agoYes, I guess by "Safari isn't forkable" he means the GUI application, but WebKit itself is definitely open-source and has been forked before (and is itself a fork of KHTML).
- Sebb767 5y agoIndeed, that's what I meant. You can fork WebKit, but you don't start out with a working browser, like you would when forking Firefox or Chromium.