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.
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.
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.