@bdonvr@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 11 months agoWhy are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?message-square79fedilinkarrow-up1312
arrow-up1312message-squareWhy are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?@bdonvr@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 11 months agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-square@Matriks404@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink26•11 months agoWhy would we need any Firefox-based browser that isn’t Firefox? Customize it a bit, and it works perfectly fine.
minus-square@PlexSheep@feddit.delinkfedilink22•11 months agoSame thing with chromium, that didn’t stop the clones.
minus-squareTriStarlinkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-211 months 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•11 months 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