A few thoughts. I responded to a nested comment elsewhere saying I have seen one Firefox fork in 2021. Replay.io. A neat web debugger featured here. I was mil

A few thoughts. I responded to a nested comment elsewhere saying I have seen one Firefox fork in 2021. Replay.io. A neat web debugger featured here. I was mildly surprised Microsoft went with Chromium. Not forking Gecko or some mix of stuff that are not Blink. Or even Blink itself. I may be incorrect here, and maybe the separation of engine and browser is not as big as I’m thinking, but every major Chromium based browser including Edge are forks of Chromium, not just Blink. I don’t know how big of a difference that is. I wonder what could have been if Microsoft had moved on from Trident Edge earlier. Say internally two years earlier than our timeline. If they still would have gone the Chromium route. With more time, they could’ve ironed out enough issues like Netflix videos and Firefox. Microsoft may have had enough of being the butt of jokes, especially, by people in tech and geek circles, and wouldn’t want to try anything remotely outside the norm (aka Chromium). Putting aside XUL extensions, the other dismissal by people is Firefox still having far fewer extensions than Chromium. Even with all three major browsers/engines using web extension api now. Msft may have not wanted to deal with the PR of that either. It would be really nice if Gecko and its future had Microsoft too. I’m sure some would say they’d rather the behemoth that is Microsoft not be allied and working on Gecko/Firefox. Yet It has to be better than the current situation. Unless Microsoft forks Blink and has their own engine in the future. Apple never putting any effort into the Windows Safari app, no less, an Android version is also a bummer. The final bummer: Firefox and Mozilla getting so much crap from tech and geek communities. I never looked up how they spend their money, but being so cynically against Firefox’s every minor possible misstep is not helping. This comment may appear to be an apologist for Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla. It’s not that. Firefox continues to lose market share. Safari is sticking to its 2.5 OSes (if iOS and iPadOS are 1.5) and i believe have a better chance of losing ground unless something like their web extension library quickly grows or is able to use most Chromium extensions. All this to say. My focus is on Chromium not having a 90%+ market share on the three desktop browsers and 95%+ on Android. And yes Apple not allowing competing browser engines on iOS is lame.