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by pkasting 8y ago
There is no single project lead; there are OWNERS in various directories who make decisions collectively. I would be thrilled to see more non-Google OWNERS. The decision-making process varies based on where in the codebase you are. Blink
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by pkasting 8y ago
I'm not aware of any third-party browsers using Blink that aren't actually using it via part of the Chromium stack, usually by including the content layer. Blink doesn't officially support direct embedding by anything other
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by pkasting 8y ago
There are a significant number of committers outside Google, yes. The main part of Chromium that matters here is the content layer and below. The biggest single piece of that is Blink, which already uses a governance model with public inte
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by pkasting 8y ago
Chromium is open-source too, so if there's problems with it, our hope is that people come contribute and fix them.
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by pkasting 8y ago
Remember when Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel?
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by pkasting 8y ago
Our team is staffed by engineers. We respond well to discussions of tradeoffs. If you'd like to present a proposal for writing parts of Chromium in Rust and speak in depth to the exact costs and benefits, we'd absolutely conside
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by pkasting 14y ago
Other engines can access this functionality just fine (and do, as other people have mentioned). We simply don't have UI for you to manually tweak the relevant settings. (There's a bug on adding such UI, but it's low-priority, so no one's
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by pkasting 14y ago
We don't allow you to delete your current default engine, but we do allow you to delete other engines, because you should be able to get rid of things you don't want. We used to have a "restore all settings" button that would fix this (amon
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by pkasting 14y ago
Regarding all the suggestions to change search engines: Deleting the Google search entry is not an action that can easily be undone, and it will have drastic consequences, such as permanently disabling suggestions and instant for omnibox se