Why Brave did not try to base their browser on Firefox engine instead of going easy way with Chromium.
2 Likes
If Chromium is less secure, has worse performance, and gets less support from 3rd party devs than Firefox engine/Gecko, this argument would be valid. However, the reality is the other way around.
Thereās no reason for Gecko to exist anymore, since Chromium is fully open source, any fork can do whatever they want with it.
What if Google chooses to push more invasive updates such as mv3 into the chromium, and make it for Brave to maintain it costly if not possible?
2 Likes
Thereās nothing Google can do if the other forks donāt accept this change.
Even if thatās the case, thereās still no reason for Brave or anyone to switch to Gecko. I doubt that the cost would be an issue to maintaining the diff. Itās the compatibility issue if mv3 is a success.
The fact still remains that if mv3 is a success due to Chromeās market share, thereās nothing we can do about it. Chromium or Gecko doesnāt matter, since Mozilla has adopted mv3 in Firefox already:
However, I feel like this topic should be on another thread. I feel like itās off topic here.
I think that video makes things more complex than they are. Most users donāt even know about any of these things so itās certainly not the reason Firefox marketshare has dropped. What would be causing it is the pushing of Chrome on every google product (google search, youtube etc), and the fact that itās the default on Android.
If you take a look at Safariās market share youāll see its mostly iPhone users and apple users who havenāt installed a browser. Itās the same reason IE was common in the 90s. Had Firefox OS become something decent we might have seen something different.
7 Likes
And widely adopted