bdonvrWhy are there many hundred Chromium based browsers, but seemingly very few Firefox based browsers?
IzzyYour 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. 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.
abraham_linksysDoesn’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
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…
Tywèle [she|her]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.
“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.
neuromancerChromium is the more advanced of the two, and it was the biggest user base, there is no real upside to picking Gecko apart from Google = bad.
Everyone knows how to use Chome, if you base your browser on Chromium it’s easier to get people to use it because they already know how to use Chrome.
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.
Rikudou_SageChrome 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 browsers.
everyone knows how to use Chrome
Bro it’s a browser. They’re fairly identical to the end users it matters for.
Blaze (he/him)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 that make and it will give me approximately 2.3568 additional seconds to the length of my life.
StreetdogMay that fap satisfy your needs, my brother in Christ.
s/math/meth/gc FTFY
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.