• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Privacy is like the least important reason I use Firefox. With Microsoft Edge and Opera being based on Chromium now there are just so many of them. With Chromium essentially becoming the de facto standard because everyone uses it that means Google can ignore web standards and just do whatever they want.

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        1 year ago

        Competitors dont have to inherit those tho just because they are based on chromium.

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          It’s easier to inherit because it’s less dev time spent on a part of the browser that has less evident results for the consumer. I bet they’d rather spend money on the UX provided by UI changes rather than reworking the JavaScript engine, or anything related HTML or CSS rendering.

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        1 year ago

        There’s no reason a Chromium fork can’t conform to other web standards.