new | show | ask | jobs Github

wlesieutre 5 hours ago

Other people do fork Firefox though, like Zen browser

https://zen-browser.app/

https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop

▲

autoexec 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A lot of existing forks are just Firefox with a couple features added or removed. It's very different from a fork that continues being independently developed as a separate project.

▲

p-e-w 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There are a lot of good community forks of Chromium also.

And no, a fork of Chromium isn’t “the same as Chrome”.

▲

nik282000 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Chromium forks are not the same as Chrome but it does help Alphabet keep a strangle hold on the render engine ecology. And eithr way, monocultures are bad, a surprise vulnerability could nuke 70% of users overnight, which could be partiularly bad with features like WebSerial and WebUSB.

▲

unloader6118 3 hours ago | parent [-]

What does "keep a strangle hold on the render engine ecology" even meant?

Does "make Firefox compatible with more web site" make chrome stronger?

A thought experiment: if Firefox can use all chrome extension, does this make chrome stronger? I guess yes, right? What makes a website different from extension?

[ I am trying to show the "chrome ecology" argument is ridiculous, not saying we show stop supporting website ]

	▲	wlesieutre 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's like IE6 was - whatever Google/Chrome wants to do effectively becomes mandatory because nearly everyone is using it. Firefox has to follow along because of all the web developers who only test things in Chrome and expect all browsers to work exactly like Chrome does. If anything about your browser is different, a website doesn't work, and if you complain the response will be "We don't support Firefox, you should use Chrome or Edge instead."