Jan 07 2020 01:50 PM
I just saw a post on my Twitter from EdgeDev and they said they contributed so much to the project. with hashtag #Opensource
Open source is good but Chromium is not the only open source engine, There is Firefox, fully open source and it uses Gecko layout engine. it's been around way longer than Chromium, in fact it is one of the first engines that was ever created.
So I'm both curious and really interested to know the logic and reason that why Microsoft chose Chromium instead of Firefox.
hopefully we will see some official responses here too in addition to others :)
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Jan 10 2020 09:53 AM - edited Mar 20 2020 05:26 AM
@Thraetaona wrote:
Well, nothing is preventing them from porting the same extension to other browsers, too.
But that comes at the cost of maintenance.
Even if firefox's share droppdd to 1% compared to 99%, would it still make sense porting to it, considering that it still is the worlds second popular browser?
Well, That's impossible, but i was just saying that if chrome's usage is going to grow, then less and less developers will care about Firefox's support. how can you expect someone who doesn't care weather their site is accessible by anything other than Chrome to port their extensions to other browsers?
Firefox's usage is indeed higher within the Linux ecosystem, but be aware that some extensions might specifically target a certain OS; same reason we don't use shell (like KDE) integration extensions in chrome/firefox under windows.
Linux usage is only a tiny portion of desktop share, let alone the influence of mobile markets on this.
ublock origin is not the only extension making use of that API
Regarding trusting ublock, you might be interested in this: http://tuxdiary.com/2015/06/14/ublock-origin/
Well, why would anyone who values privacy at that rate, choose google chrome in the first place? there are many alternatives.
"Decent yes but far from perfect."
Well, it should use something like 140k at max, given that most of those rules are outdated and no longer in existence, it could be trimmed down to a much smaller amount.
I don't think that's going to happen though. I mean right now 8% is a lot and if some extension developers don't make Firefox version of their extensions then it's their own loss..
Jan 11 2020 12:50 AM - edited Jan 11 2020 12:54 AM
Strange, my reply has been posted thrice after 3 days...
Yeah, I said its impossible too.
Well that link shows what happened to an extension that's 'wise to trust'. And ublock was not the only extension making use of that API, I'm just saying that security was a priority there.
Jan 11 2020 03:37 AM - edited Mar 20 2020 05:12 AM
Yes you're right