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Why do most browser companies opt for a Chromium/Blink base instead of a Firefox/Gecko one? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I mean, I like Firefox, but I'd love to see Vivaldi based on Firefox/Gecko. There's Floorp, which is similar in some ways but it's more like an Edge built on Firefox than Vivaldi.

Edit: Thank y'all for your answers. :D

I want to link !@[email protected] 's post because it is a similar quesion. https://thelemmy.club/post/718914

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Chrome and its derivatives are by far the most popular browsers, it's simply easier to go with the most common for maximum compatibility.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And that's the problem. It gives full control power to Google. That's the reason that popularity needs to be broken.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Yep, hence why I don't use Google browsers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is a genuine question, asked by someone willing to learn.

Why does it give control to Google to use Chromium? It’s open source? Are all the decision makers Google employees? Wouldn’t one assume that forks would occur if a decision was taken as chromium level that was detrimental to, say, Microsoft’s Edge?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Google is the maintainer and biggest contributor to chromium.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser) and they've already introduced wei into chromium without any pushback.

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/255346/Google-is-already-pushing-WEI-DRM-Webpage-into-Chromium

There are forks of chromium already like Vivaldi. You can still use them. Unfortunately using them is not a guarantee that Google can't use their usage numbers as leverage while politicing or advertising bad behaviour to other parties like social media.

Worse yet, maintaining a fork is a huge undertaking for a project in the size of chromium. This means in time the fork may struggle to keep up. Or upstream may introduce functions that depends on the bad behaviours and the fork be forced to either adopt both, or adopt none.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Seems fair, tho 99,99% of websites are working just fine

Thank you for your answer :)