bdonvr@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 years agoWhy are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?message-squaremessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up1345arrow-down16
arrow-up1339arrow-down1message-squareWhy are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?bdonvr@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square85fedilink
minus-squareMatriks404@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down9·2 years agoWhy would we need any Firefox-based browser that isn’t Firefox? Customize it a bit, and it works perfectly fine.
minus-squarePlexSheep@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down2·2 years agoSame thing with chromium, that didn’t stop the clones.
minus-squareTriStar@lemmyfly.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 years 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-squareJackbyDevlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years 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