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I know it's naturally happening in a large codebase, I'm asking why they specifically maintain a fork just for that instead of trying to push what are probably

• poincaredisk 2y ago
  Purely guessing: abstracting a browser name is yet another abstraction layer. A later that is not needed by chromium. Maintainers of chromium primarily care about maintainability of chromium, not other forks.
  • throwaway35023 2y ago
    If the browser name is referenced in multiple places, it seems to me that by defining it in one place actually increases the maintainability.
    • filcuk 2y ago
      I think what they're saying is that Chromium will remain Chromium, so maintainers have little incentive to worry about this