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I'm not sure I understand concerns about not wanting to support anything based on Chromium. Chromium is 100% open-source, and there are Chromium committers fro
by dmazzoni 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand concerns about not wanting to support anything based on Chromium.
Chromium is 100% open-source, and there are Chromium committers from Microsoft, Opera, Samsung, Igalia, Electron, and dozens of other companies, plus some who are affiliated.
I understand not wanting to use Google Chrome, but why throw out the whole open-source browser engine?
If the argument is that you don't want Google to benefit, then are you going to similarly boycott any other open-source technology that Google created or uses? Are you going to boycott the Linux kernel because Google heavily uses it? Are you going to boycott Kubernetes, Flutter, and Go as well? Are you going to boycott every Electron app too?
- theshrike79 3y agoSome of us lived through the IE monoculture days. It's not good for the web if one organisation can dictate what works and what doesn't. If it wasn't for Safari's popularity, Chromium based browsers would consist about 90-95% of all browser traffic.
- asadotzler 3y agoGonna guess you weren't online in the early 2000s when we fought like hell to disrupt Microsoft Trident's 95% browser monopoly that it was using to stall the web so .Net and other MS Windows platforms could hopefully catch up and not be disrupted. We're there again with Chromium, another Trident.
- shafyy 3y agoTrue, Chromium is open source. But as others have stated: Google is the main driver and benfactor of Chromium, and we need more diversity in the browser engine game. The examples you mentioned don't suffer from the same quasi-monopoly structure in the market.