bdonvr@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhy are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?message-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
arrow-up16arrow-down1message-squareWhy are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?bdonvr@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareMatriks404@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoWhy would we need any Firefox-based browser that isn’t Firefox? Customize it a bit, and it works perfectly fine.
minus-squarePlexSheep@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoSame thing with chromium, that didn’t stop the clones.
minus-squareTriStar@lemmyfly.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoFor what it’s worth Brave and Opera do extend the base Chromium functionality quite a bit. No idea why they couldn’t have done it with FF/Gecko though.
Why would we need any Firefox-based browser that isn’t Firefox?
Customize it a bit, and it works perfectly fine.
Same thing with chromium, that didn’t stop the clones.
For what it’s worth Brave and Opera do extend the base Chromium functionality quite a bit. No idea why they couldn’t have done it with FF/Gecko though.