Linux Foundation bands together Chromium browser makers in a “neutral space”
Open source group aims to better organize and fund development of browser.
Chromium really?
After the whole debacle of manifest v3 they're really choosing Chromium of all browsers to develop on?
Mozilla has made some controversial decisions but surely Firefox would be the better decision for the Linux and FOSS ecosystem.
Even better why not Librewolf?
Seeing this news makes me sad as there are better options available and the Linux foundation chose the worst one out of all of them.
Ironically I also just saw this here on the fediverse: Google loses in court, faces trial for collecting data on users who opted out
Unfortunately, as much as I hate to admit it as someone who has left Chromium behind personally, Chromium is kind of the only choice. I think people outside the browser implementation world underestimate the sheer scale and complexity of the modern browser stack and what goes into maintaining compatibility with web standards, much less advancing them.
We've reached the point where Chromium is essentially the de-facto web standard because Chromium engineers do the lions' share of feature testing and development, because Chromium receives the lions' share of funding.
Igalia, an OSS consultancy that does a lot of fairly-funded independent browser development, has lots of material about this. For example, the recent chat between Igalia members and someone from Open Web Advocacy about what to do if the anitrust ruling against Google jeopardize's Chromium's funding, and the options are pretty dire.
Edit: After reading the article, I think this is a really good sign. Bringing together the immediate stakeholders in Chromium's development and funding bodes well for the possibility of stewarding Chromium in a less Google-dependent, profit-motivated, ad-centric direction. There's unfortunately a lot of uncertainty about how this will all shake out, but it's possible that Chromium could become a truly independent project and move back in the direction of user value instead of user-hostile shareholder value.
We’ve reached the point where Chromium is essentially the de-facto web standard because Chromium engineers do the lions’ share of feature testing and development,
Most of the web standards driven by Chromium are not particularly beneficial to the web, but are beneficial to Google. This is not an accident. It is how Google has made itself gatekeeper of the web while maintaining the facade of an open and standards-compliant browser.
This is not a good thing. Community-focused projects investing time and money into supporting it is a bit like digging one's own grave.
Linux Foundation is also the host for the Servo project.
Or servo. Literally anything but chrome man.
@Static_Rocket@lemmy.world and @neblem@lemmy.world thanks for mentioning Servo👍
I didn't know about that rust-based alternative until now and I agree; even Servo would've been a better choice than Chromium.
Complete servo tlf??? I am done with chrome and Firefox also getting in AI shit
So far all of their ai stuff has been:
I just don't get why people are upset that they're doing literally the bare minimum to grab headlines so that normies realize they're a legit browser.
donate to mozilla people
Umm... no.
If Mozilla needs more resources for their browser, they can stop paying their CEOs so much and replace analysts with engineers.
They can also stop wasting their resources on projects nobody cares about.
i didn't think you understand how funding works
