• Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
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    10 months ago

    Why? Maybe because of Google? Google has the same influence in Firefox, there even Google devs working in Mozilla on Firefox. Don’t forget, Chromium is FOSS and every company is free to gut Chromium to they like, which Vivaldi devs are doing. EDGE is also Chromium, it is a privacy Nightmare, but all calls are of MS and participating companies, but zero calls to Google. The original engine was KDE’s KHTML, forked by Apple into WebKit which Google improved, creating Blink, which currently is the best engine, because of this also the most used.

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      10 months ago

      Define “best”.

      That said, none of your reasons really. Well, in a sense because of Google. But not their influence on FF, but Manifest 3.

      Plus, having Blink as the only engine on the web paves the way to non-standardized practices and technologies. And Google would control that. And one company having too much control has never been a good idea. Isn’t that right, Microsoft (cough Internet Explorer)?

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        10 months ago

        What is the sense of OpenSource? Or which part of OpenSource you don’t have understand, respect control by an unique author? Google control the web and its services, that isits power, not the Blink or other engine, which everyone can modify and customize.