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schmurnan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yeah I know they’re all based on one of three, but they are all subtly different in what they offer.

So whilst there are three main engines, there are definitely more than three choices.

Bottom of the pile for me is Chrome - I don’t use anything Google knowingly/willingly.

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Toes@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Personally, I use the ESR version of Firefox so I don’t regularly get unneeded updates.

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abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Google might be the primary maintainer of Chromium, but they don’t really control it. Literally hundreds of other companies and thousands if individual developers contribute to Chromium every day and if Google did something they don’t like the engine would be forked in a heartbeat.

In fact it has been forked — thousands of times (according to GitHub). It’s just none of those forks have gained much traction. If Google really messes things up, such as if they actually go ahead and remove cookies as they’ve threatened to do for years, then one or two of those forks will gain traction. Likely enough traction that Google themselves would struggle to keep up and could end up killing Blink and basing Chrome off one of the forks.

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- AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Over 96% of contributions are Google, terrible take.
  
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  - abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/…/AUTHORS
    
    The vast majority of names on that list are not google employees.
    
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    AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The authors file is not the source of who writes it.
    
    Look at actual commit data, like here bkardell.com/…/2023-Mid-Season-Power-Rankings.htm…
    
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- schmurnan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sorry, I wasn’t classing Chrome and Chromium as the same thing. I’m a software developer of 20 years so I understand they’re not the same thing. I guess I just took that opportunity to state that I don’t use Google services/products if I can help it.
  
  In work we’re a Windows house, but I’ve managed to get my hands on an M2 MacBook Pro. For now I’m still using Edge but would like to get my iCloud exemption so I can use some of the apps on my personal MBP for work, and I’m wondering whether I should continue using Edge for work and A. N. Other browser for personal (and mirror this on my iPhone); or whether to use profiles, for example, on Safari and split it that way. I might be limited to what I can download on the work machine, but I’d like to synergies everything as much as I can where possible rather than having two completely different Mac experiences with my iPhone sort of thrown in the middle of both.
  
  Which browser do you prefer? I assume a Chromium-based derivative?
  
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