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Comment on Why are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 months agoWell sure, but I don’t think it changes my question much. There’s still so few active gecko-based browsers. And so many blink based.
neuromancer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
everyone knows how to use Chrome
Bro it’s a browser. They’re fairly identical to the end users it matters for.
ScrivenerX@lemm.ee 11 months ago
there is no real upside to picking Gecko apart from Google = bad.
AdBlock works better on Firefox. Firefox takes fewer resources. Firefox is open source. And that’s just off the top of my head.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Google = bad
Isn’t Google trying to embed DRM into webpages to avoid track blocking as we speak?
vd1n@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah but I save 0.000097 seconds per page load. I did that make and it will give me approximately 2.3568 additional seconds to the length of my life.
berg@lemm.ee 11 months ago
s/math/meth/gc FTFY
Streetdog@lemmy.world 11 months ago
May that fap satisfy your needs, my brother in Christ.
Izzy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That makes a lot of sense when you are looking at the two today, but Firefox is older than Chrome. So they managed to become more advanced and take all the browser marketshare in some way.
rikudou@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Chrome was really fast back then. And Google has money to burn on ad campaigns.
neuromancer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]Izzy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Chromium stays the best by developing new internet standards. Then big websites adopt them and Mozilla has no choice but to play catch-up if they want these sites to work well in their browsers.
Izzy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Chromium is likely more popular because Google has such a stranglehold over the development of new internet standards. They set standards and then implement them into Chromium perfectly which tends to make Chrome really well optimized and fast.
abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Doesn’t work forever though. Used to be the same with Microsoft and Internet Explorer, but better things came along that were less terrible and not controlled by a single tech company throwing their weight around to push their own standards.
It’ll happen again if Google restricts the extension store much more though. They’ve been attacking ad and privacy extensions for years
Resolved3874@lemdro.id 11 months ago
“leaks” about Google blocking ad blockers got me to switch to Firefox in October last year. Was worth the risk. Took the time to also leave googles password manager and switch to bitwarden as well.
over_clox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There are still websites that work on basic HTML 1.1, even under Windows 3.11 and Internet Explorer 5.
That whole ‘nothing lasts forever’ thing isn’t because the changing internet standards, it’s because companies and websites choose to adopt those standards rather than stick with backwards compatibility.
Granted yes, a lot of it has to do with security, Google’s pocketbook security by shoving ads in our faces…
0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster 11 months ago
That won’t stand true with Google I’m afraid. They adapt quickly. Meta is probably quicker than them, but doesn’t have the user base Google has, so it really can’t dictate that much.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
As long as chrome is the default option on every or almost every android smartphone chrome will have the majority marketshare. People always mostly use the default.