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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’re the same browser though.

  They actually aren’t the same browser, since MS rips out some stuff and adds their own. Including features I like tree style tabs.

  It’s a similar and derivative browser, but they aren’t the same.

  There are more similarities than differences.

  You can say the same about tons of things, but the differences are what matters. You and I share more similarities than differences, just like the browsers, but we aren’t the same person.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They’re the same in the ways I care about, which is rendering and javascript engines. I’m a developer, that’s what matters to me. I rarely interact with extra features, and I can get most of what’s unique about a given browser with extensions.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Right, the rendering engine is the same, that’s still not the browser. Again, just because it’s a derivative browser doesn’t make it the same browser.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I kinda think it does. I use a gecko browser as my main, and I use a chromium browser as my backup. I don’t use most of the default features, I just need a handful of extensions, and those are available everywhere.

        So to me they’re pretty much the same. Brave is a little different since it embeds an ad blocker, but besides that, the rest of the chromium browsers are equivalent for me.

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