• LeTak@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Chrome was not always based on chromeium. Chrome was based on Apple WebKit until 2013 when they forked WebKit and made the Blink engine.

    • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
      1·
      11 months ago

      Pre-Chromium Edge wasn’t even that bad. Sure, the engine had its issues and there was probably a bit of Edge-specific JS on some websites, but I’m sure they would’ve eventually got there.

      But seeing that even Microsoft abandoned making their own browser engine, it goes to show how complex it is to make one nowadays and with new web APIs/features coming out every few weeks it feels like, it’s almost impossible to keep up.

    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Been using FF for about 2 decades now and I have never seen a single good reason to switch.

      • EricKendrick@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Ditto. As much as people pretend Firefox is niche, it is the only browser with lineage back to the start of the web.

  • Amy :3@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Brave, Vivaldi, Edge and other chromium browsers are forks of the main chromium project. They can decide whether to include or exclude features from mainstream chromium.

    As far as I know, Brave and Vivaldi will keep Manifest V2 extension support and said that they will not ship WEI (Web Environment Integrity).

    Discord uses a modified version of electron, and it’s also probably an outdated fork as well, although I am not sure about that.

    Steam, in the other hand, uses CEF, which they use as a way to render it’s interface and as a replacement of VGUI (a good example of this is the steam game overlay), I don’t know if they will ship WEI if it ever releases in chromium as there isn’t a statement from Valve yet.

    Sources:

    If I missed something, please tell me!

    • drathvedro@lemm.ee
      1·
      11 months ago

      Yep, just like slack, spotify, and anything else looking fancy while wasting few gigs of ram to just open. They’re built on electron, which is practically chrome without tabs.

      • qwertychomp@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        I wish they could bring back mozilla prism. Like all this electron web app shit is popular, so we don’t we use the faster and more efficient browser engine and use gecko!