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Worrying. Extrapolating a (speculative) future, this means (Google will feel) that soon the chromium base will no longer need the crowd-sourced bug hunting that
by Phemist 2mo ago
Worrying. Extrapolating a (speculative) future, this means (Google will feel) that soon the chromium base will no longer need the crowd-sourced bug hunting that is open-source. I expect Google to eventually stop working on chromium (in the open) and all current chromium-flavours will become de-facto forks of the last published version of chromium. These forks won't be equally easy to maintain given that the groups running them do not have access to the same level of subsidy as Chrome does with Gemini.
- dybber 2mo agoGoogle already controls Chrome/Chromium direction so much that you should use Firefox if you value an open web.
- Phemist 2mo agoWhich I do (actually a fork of firefox - waterfox), but it is still worrying as the viability of chromium-base browsers is what's keeping us having "merely" a chromium-monoculture (with viable ad blockers e.g. and website operators that check compatibility with more than one browser), rather than a chrome-monoculture (where ad-blockers surely would have been killed by now).
- Alpha3031 2mo agoMicrosoft surely has enough resources to keep their fork going if they choose to, so I see no reason why Google would try that given they would likely end up with less control over the web.
- shepherdjerred 2mo agoConversely, it has never been more feasible for alternative web browsers to be created and maintained outside of big tech.
- fragmede 2mo agoYet, no one's taken Cursor's fastrender to production.
- shepherdjerred 2mo agoThe goal of that project wasn’t to produce a web browser, it was to market Cursor