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"Everything is chrome in the future." The article doesn't really say anything new, but _why_ are most browser forks of Chrome instead of Firefox? Is chrome jus
by krackers 2y ago
"Everything is chrome in the future."
The article doesn't really say anything new, but _why_ are most browser forks of Chrome instead of Firefox? Is chrome just that much easier to fork? I remember there used to be Camino for mac that was killed and rolled into firefox, and even to this day firefox support on mac is poor. The lack of a firefox equivalent to Electron also hurts things, even though it seemed firefox was ahead of the curve with XUL.
- bad_user 2y agoFirefox-based browsers exist, notable ones for me being: Tor, Mullvad, LibreWolf, Zen.
- ntp85 2y agoYes, I've actually been using Zen for a while now and even donated to the project as it seems a pretty worthwhile (and necessary) competitor.
- genewitch 2y agoI'd wager it's due to someone complaining about firefox (its always bills, you notice? The same reason IE6 stuck around for...), without fail, everytime the word "Firefox" is mentioned anywhere. And then we get anecdotes like "gmail and YouTube are buggy" Oh, really? That's so weird that a multinational would hamstring a competitor that doesn't feed their shareholders more value.
- xnx 2y agoChrome is a better codebase.
- laxis96 2y agoTo be fair, I recall some ex-Mozilla developer claiming that the Firefox codebase is indeed full of technical debt (over 20 years) and pretty hard to modernize