@bdonvr@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 2 years agoWhy are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?message-square82fedilinkarrow-up1300arrow-down14
arrow-up1296arrow-down1message-squareWhy are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?@bdonvr@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 2 years agomessage-square82fedilink
minus-square@Matriks404@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink19•2 years 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.delinkfedilink20•2 years agoSame thing with chromium, that didn’t stop the clones.
minus-squareTriStarlinkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-22 years 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•2 years 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