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There is no-one else to support. We either give up and let Google win or keep supporting this side, which is broken today, but one day may not be.
by proactivesvcs 5y ago
There is no-one else to support. We either give up and let Google win or keep supporting this side, which is broken today, but one day may not be.
- Shank 5y agoOn a different thread today, someone mentioned LibreWolf (https://librewolf.net/ https://librewolf.net/), which might be a viable browser to support (a fork of Firefox), and for macOS, there's Orion (https://browser.kagi.com/ https://browser.kagi.com/), which is built on WebKit. When you consider browser engines, you can use Blink (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera), WebKit (right now, Safari and Blink only?), or Gecko (Firefox, LibreWolf, others?). I would suggest just supporting anything other than Blink if you want competition. Firefox isn't the only alternative. At least with WebKit there's someone who isn't Google who wants to make changes that won't fill their engine with ads.
- LeoPanthera 5y agoForks of Firefox are no good, if you don't support Firefox. If Firefox dies, there's nothing left to maintain the fork.
- locness3 5y agoThis is a really important thing that people often seem not to care about. It also applies to Chromium forks like ungoogled-chromium.
- dnissley 5y agoWhat does it mean for Google to "win" and why would it be so terrible? Also we should not forget Apple who has a monopoly on what browser functionality makes it into iOS, which is IMO a much bigger threat to the openness of the web than Google.
- bogwog 5y agoSo one (user-hostile) company having a complete monopoly on the web is less of a threat than two companies having a duopoly?