Chromium versus Firefox

Posted Jun 16, 2017 16:31 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: Chromium versus Firefox by epa
Parent article: The Brave web browser

It's more likely due to Blink being the only embedding API in town. Nobody else wants people to use their browser as much as Google does.

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Chromium versus Firefox

Posted Jun 19, 2017 9:30 UTC (Mon) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] (1 responses)

But here they are not embedding a web control into something else, but making a whole browser. That could be done by forking Firefox as well as by forking Chrome.

Chromium versus Firefox

Posted Jun 20, 2017 6:55 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Projects that try to build on Firefox as a base have historically turned out badly: most of them just tweak the branding, settings and addons.

The only real forks left are Pale Moon, which is lagging years behind on web standards support due to how much it's diverged; and Seamonkey, whose volunteer maintainers are already struggling to keep up. With the impending death of XUL neither are likely to survive the winter - not a very good advertisement for the platform.