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I’m no expert, but I think the main moat that Chrome has here is its web store where users find extensions and developers submit their extensions. There’s a rev

I’m no expert, but I think the main moat that Chrome has here is its web store where users find extensions and developers submit their extensions. There’s a review process which whilst far from perfect is labor intensive and still helps catch rogue extensions. Hard to open-source this part of Chrome.

cglong 4y ago
There's an OSS fork of Chromium for Android called Kiwi that enables installing extensions from the Chrome Web Store.
- ToruiDev 4y ago
  Which still relies on the Chrome Web store. Which will stop accepting MV2 Extensions after the move to MV3 Therefore leaving you without a store again
marwis 4y ago
You also can't use Google services with unofficial build. That includes Sync, Translate and bunch of other stuff.
- zarzavat 4y ago
  That’s a feature for me. I don’t want to have to sign into my browser or have it phoning home constantly. It’s a privacy risk.