Comments on: Chrome Browser Engine: ONLY Browser out there?

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 04:38:53 +0000

In reply to J….

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This is somewhat too harsh. I thought hard if I wanted to approve it. Decided in the end I would. I definitely don’t think this way, even while using Chrome on a day to day basis.

By: J...

J... — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:21:36 +0000

It’s Mozilla’s own fault anyway. They attempted to catch up way too late after they kept trying to copy Chrome bit by bit, stripping out everything that made Firefox what it actually was and making every single release less stable by every number increment while adding nothing but customisation removal (which is why they kept losing market share rapidly) – now, they’re going about priding about their ‘independence’ to pander to the communists who think they can actually make a difference when in reality, Mozilla should just give up the useless chase they caused on themselves.

In reality they should have just given up in 2008 and worked on Chromium… I honestly hope Firefox dies in a ditch at this point, the only people who actually care about privacy are doing seedy shit themselves.

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 06:07:54 +0000

In reply to Brad Dougherty.

Brad,

Thanks. Do note that in iOS, ALL browsers are forced to use Apple’s WebKit. Not a WebKit, but the Apple supplied one that is preintegrated into the operating system. So for all intent and purposes, they don’t really matter.
On the desktop, all browsers other than the leading 4 have low market share anyway, so they don’t matter either.

By: Brad Dougherty

Brad Dougherty — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 03:08:09 +0000

Just an FYI: a number of (mostly mobile) browsers use WebKit, so it’s not really an Apple-only thing as you seem to imply in this article.

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:14:44 +0000

In reply to peter.

Not really.

But – it can shift critical components of it out of Chromium into Chrome

And it doesn’t really matter as its strength lies from the control it exerts on the Chromium codebase and not from the fact that the code is hidden from sight.

By: peter

peter — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:09:39 +0000

Can google make Chromium closed source if they decide to?

By: Roey

Roey — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:30:06 +0000

It makes perfect sense, and I completely agree with you.
Why throwing tones of money on product that no body wants? as you said, MS must have something of their own, so they’re using chrome engine.
I don’t think it will take us back to the ridicules situation we had with IE. chrome browser code is open, everyone are free to take the code, add improvements and release new products without any permission from google – that’s exactly what google did with webkit few years ago…