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I'm not sure a lot of these browsers have the resources to fork Chromium and stay "profitable" or whatever their goal is. Microsoft probably could but they gave
by kevincox 4y ago
I'm not sure a lot of these browsers have the resources to fork Chromium and stay "profitable" or whatever their goal is. Microsoft probably could but they gave up on Edge when it was pretty feature complete so I'm guessing that they would really prefer not to maintain a browser by themselves. I'd bet that most of the other Chromium-based browsers would not be capable of financially maintaining a serious fork where some fundamental internal APIs have been changed.
- rasz 4y agoMicrosoft had a chance of winning back Browser war by announcing Blink fork with V2 and 100% backporting of all Google changes. But "Microsoft reported more than $10 billion in advertising revenue last year", so they were reluctant to get this easy win.
- alyandon 4y agoYes, I was pretty disappointed when Microsoft announced they would transition to v3. They already do so much customization to completely de-Google Chromium and replace it with Microsoft equivalent functionality (and adding new features on top of that) - it would have been almost a no-op for them to maintain v2 compatibility.
- JohnFen 4y agoI think Microsoft is increasingly getting into the ad business themselves, and so may have the same incentive as Google in terms of neutering adblockers.