Why are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?
Why are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?
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Your searching on this may be skewed due to Firefox not being the equivalent of Chromium. Firefox is not actually the browser engine. Firefox is based on the browser engine called Gecko which is developed by Mozilla. There are actually a number of other Gecko based browsers they just aren't very popular or are for niche use-cases.
Well 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.
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.
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
"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.
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...
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.
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.
I hardly care anymore myself. I'm learning more and more about the de-googled internet and finding myself with even more options, like anonymous, shared, unlimited, protected cloud storage capacity that even works from IE5 in HTML1.1
Yes it's a series of hacks, not your everyday approach, but I'm doing my part to keep the old internet ticking and archived as best as I can, with terabytes of data archived and accessible even on ancient potatoes.
I just don't have the time and the energy to do that any more. Too old and have a family now, which takes up most of my free time. The rest I spend here, on Lemmy.
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.
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everyone knows how to use Chrome
Bro it's a browser. They're fairly identical to the end users it matters for.
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.
Sadly, none of this matters for most of the users.
Google = bad
Isn't Google trying to embed DRM into webpages to avoid track blocking as we speak?
Yeah but I save 0.000097 seconds per page load. I did the math and it will give me approximately 2.3568 additional seconds to the length of my life.
I did more math and that means I'll have time for one more fap before I leave the world behind.
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s/math/meth/g FTFY
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.
Chrome was really fast back then. And Google has money to burn on ad campaigns.
Chome has privacy issues, but Chromium has always been a very good browser.
When Chrome came out Microsoft were the bad guys, it wasn't hard for Google to market themselves as the better alternative to Internet Explorer.
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 browser.
Isn’t Safari Gecko-based? Safari has a huge market share.
Safari is webkit based. Which was also the basis for chromium, but it has diverted a lot from it. Other webkit based browsers are gnome web, KDE konqueror.