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> The state of web browsers is more comparable to derivative distros like Debian based or red hat based etc. They don't hard fork, they track upstream with a bu
by encryptluks2 4y ago
> The state of web browsers is more comparable to derivative distros like Debian based or red hat based etc. They don't hard fork, they track upstream with a bunch of changes continually rebased on top.
Isn't that Brave is doing here? There is NetSurf and others but the spec is complex because of standards committees, not because of Chromium.
- tomxor 4y agoYes, brave is not a "hard fork" in the sense that it tracks upstream rather than diverged from it at some point in time. The difference is that they can try and add and remove bits on each rebase, but ultimately it's beholden to the long term choices of the chromium project. Substantially diverging while tracking upstream incurs too much work on each rebase; Abandoning upstream to accommodate substantial divergence also incurs too much work due to taking on independent maintenance that increases the more the projects diverge... so as I said no one with substantial resources and a good reason would attempt to hard fork chromium.