@[email protected] to No Stupid Questions • 1 year agoWhy are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?message-square74fedilinkarrow-up1352arrow-down16
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minus-square@Matriks404link20•1 year agoWhy would we need any Firefox-based browser that isn’t Firefox? Customize it a bit, and it works perfectly fine.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink20•1 year agoSame thing with chromium, that didn’t stop the clones.
minus-squareTriStarlinkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-21 year agoFor what it’s worth Brave and Opera do extend the base Chromium functionality quite a bit. No idea why they couldn’t have done it with FF/Gecko though.
minus-squareJackbyDevlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoOpera switched to Chromium. It used to be its own thing.
Why would we need any Firefox-based browser that isn’t Firefox?
Customize it a bit, and it works perfectly fine.
Same thing with chromium, that didn’t stop the clones.
For what it’s worth Brave and Opera do extend the base Chromium functionality quite a bit. No idea why they couldn’t have done it with FF/Gecko though.
Opera switched to Chromium. It used to be its own thing.
Sadly yeah