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Nightly by Firefox
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I wont change Firefox. Love it
These are all just chrome and firefox with extra steps.
@Thyazide @Tutanota
From Vivaldi concerning it being Chromium based:
“Vivaldi is based on Chromium, which is open-source, and all the
improvements we make to this code are published under the same open-
source license. That’s roughly 95% of the code. The remaining 5%, related to Vivaldi’s UI, remains proprietary to this day, although it is still possible to make sense of the obfuscated code and edit it to mod the browser to your liking (something some of the community members do).
As for the reasons for not going fully open-source at the moment, despite
many of Vivaldi’s employees being proponents and users of open-source
software, the devil is in the details. The UI is what makes Vivaldi a unique
browser, we wouldn’t want our work to be used to create a forked browser
that opposes our ethics, and given our limited resources, we cannot
commit to review submitted patches.
This is what works for our company now, but the discussion is, regardless,
far from settled.”True
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They’re not “run on Chromium” like apps run on Windows. They use Chromium as their integral part. Better analogy would be taking Windows, uninstalling some but not all pre-installed apps, adding a bunch of bells and whistles to it, and saying that you’ve made an OS that is an alternative to Windows.
Exactly. Calling Chromium-based browsers “Chrome with extra steps” might not be exactly accurate, but it conveys the truth of the matter pretty accurately
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You linked a marketing page. It says “it’s a layer”, sure. They conveniently omitted that other “layers” they mention - UI and synchronization between devices - aren’t even close to be comparable in complexity with engine.
Like that one guy in your school project, slacking off for a month, and then coming in hot with writing a page out of 30, and getting equal share of the credit.deleted by creator
Have you… read it?
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The majority are soft forks - compiling chromium with some flags, patches, presents, and add-ons.
@fizzle
Could be, but the ones I know do a little bit more.https://yngve.vivaldi.net/sooo-you-say-you-want-to-maintain-a-chromium-fork/
Oh yeah, some custom css as well.
Good analogy, what happens if Microsoft decided tomorrow that windows was no longer a profitable venture and stopped maintaining it?
Relying on Chrome and Firefox for alternatives to Chrome and Firefox is still an issue. Especially with Mozilla, if they folded the community would not have the resources to maintain Firefox.
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When Google will discontinue Chromium as an opensource project (notice that I didn’t say if), all those browsers will survive for half a year and then die due to lack of compliance and security updates. Chromium is incredibly complicated, web protocols are even more complicated, none of that is good, and people are rapidly losing the ability to maintain complicated projects due to LLM-induced mass psychoses.
The fact that the engine can in theory be forked now doesn’t add much.deleted by creator
For you? Depend on your budget and how many people you employ.
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Gecko would die the minute mozilla said they weren’t going to maintain it.
No one is going to pick it up.
I kind of assumed you would reply with a lack of understanding of the resources it takes to maintain those engines and keep them complaint with web standards.
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It’s still a problem. I didnt say we had other options right now. But pretending it’s not a problem isn’t going to fix it. Do you really want to rely on those companies for your browser engines? Mozilla is at least an alternative to Google, but a tenuous one. And Microsoft taking over development of either of those isn’t an improvement.
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it’s highly unlikely that they will just stop
It’s like you never heard of Google and their practices.
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Pedantry isn’t really an argument, its just pedandtry. Those engines rely almost entirely on the resources provided by Google and Mozilla’s development of their broswers. Open source is all well and good, but those engines are not primarily maintained by the community, they’re maintained by employees at Google and Mozilla.
I could swear Icecat went unmaintained like a decade ago, but after looking it up just now it seems like I hallucinated that.
Firefox, always happy with it as a user
@Tutanota @firefox @duckduckgo @puffin @Waterfox @ecosia @palemoon @zenbrowser @mullvadnet @torproject @Freenet @librewolf please help me, is Brave not a feasible alternative?
Loved Vanadium when using Graphene
I thought for sure the librewolf icon was amorak
I like Librewolf
@Tutanota @firefox @duckduckgo @puffin @Waterfox @ecosia @palemoon @zenbrowser @mullvadnet @torproject @Freenet @librewolf I use Floorp most, DuckDuckGo on mobile, Tor browser as a fallback, and Dillo+ for the rest. Although I keep a copy of Falkon around and I’m following Ladybird closely.
I absolutely adore LibreWolf!
On PC I use zenbrowser on android I use weblibre.
With Local AI ? No thanks
You can turn this off as you can see.
@Tutanota @firefox @puffin @Waterfox @ecosia @palemoon @zenbrowser @mullvadnet @torproject @Freenet @librewolf Librewolf for desk computer. Waterfox for android
@Tutanota @firefox @duckduckgo @puffin @Waterfox @ecosia @palemoon @zenbrowser @mullvadnet @torproject @Freenet @librewolf **Waterfox**, of course : No Mozilla A.I. bullshit but still account Sync through all my browsers. 😙
I like zen flavored Firefox and librewolf
