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Your's is an interesting angle that I hadn't thought of. I think the counter to it would be: Brave inadvertently helps Google, by improving Chromium, and it wou
by K0nserv 3y ago
Your's is an interesting angle that I hadn't thought of. I think the counter to it would be: Brave inadvertently helps Google, by improving Chromium, and it would be better if they inadvertently helped Mozilla, by improving Gecko. Building a browser engine is a big undertaking and I think most people would agree that more time and energy being invested in Gecko would be a good thing.
- WorldMaker 3y agoBrave also inadvertently helps Google by contributing to the overall stats of Blink users and decreasing Firefox's visible marketshare. Firefox's shrinking marketshare marks it for "death" in a lot of little papercut ways. More users using Gecko would send more messages to web developers investing in which markets to pursue.
- dividedbyzero 3y agoBut what would be the point? For me Brave is essentially Firefox-level privacy with Chrome-level compatibility, performance and reliability. A Gecko-based Brave would be just Firefox with a few UI changes and maybe somewhat fewer compatibility issues until Google gets around to creating harder ones.
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoPeople keep talking about ‘compatibility issues’, but I’ve only encountered those a handful of times in over half a decade of using Firefox.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoBoth engines are very good, but they've been diverging lately and web standards are introduced at a breakneck speed