Chromium

I hate chromium.

It acts like chrome because IT IS CHROME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Minus the obvious branding and proprietary "Google-y bits" Unfortunately it's the same codebase.

At least Firefox at it's core truly differs.

And much more private, and you can make it more private by hardening it!
The only reason Chromium exists is because Google is bound by the original license when they bought it, which is copyleft. So they have to release an open source version, which is Chromium. Google Chrome is their flagship product and is proprietary and hence is the one that bears the Google branding and colours.

Yeah, ain't this the truth. Firefox and safari are the only browsers that arent chromium based. We must protect Firefox at all coats! Without it, Google would have a monopoly on the browser space... a world I would not like to live in.

I'm doing my part, but damn has it gotten janky since the rewrite.
- Yeah, I feel you on that.
And even Safari is a Chrome predecessor (roughly KHTML -> WebKit -> Blink).

iOS be like: they're all safari

Real men telnet to the web server and manually type GET commands and read the raw HTML.

Pft you still have to read the HTML? I just stick a fiberoptic in my ass and download it rectally.
- Man that's pleasure + information. Man of culture!
- Guess you have enough fiber in your diet.

The misuse of this meme is one of my biggest meme pet peeves. Have people forgotten that in that scene, his vision is clear when he's not wearing glasses? So the meme should be the other way around.

Like many memes, this one exists outside of the original oeuvre (movie, painting, etc). For instance, I have not see the movie it comes from, it wouldn't makes sense to me if it was the other way around.
Kids these days, amirite...

Firefox is the best. There is only Firefox.

This is precisely what makes Firefox so important. It's basically the only other open and independent implementation of the web stack. If Firefox goes away then the web becomes whatever Chrome is doing just how it was in the days when IE was the only game in town.

This will also make Google the gatekeeper for the Internet, and there's a pretty big conflict with an ads company controlling how people consume content online. We've already seen how Google keeps trying to make API changes in the engine that kneecap adblockers.

Of course, people could fork Chrome into a separate project, but maintaining a fork is a herculean effort, and it would basically need the funding and infrastructure that Mozilla already has.

Honestly, my biggest fear if Apple ever allows other browser engines on iOS is that developers will stop testing on anything other than Chrome. And they will tell iPhone users to "just download Chrome."

I've already heard so many places tell people not to use Firefox or Safari to access their website. It's IE 6 all over again. I hate Chrome and refuse to use it.

They'll pry Firefox from my cold dead hands.
Yes, it’s a sad state of affairs that Apple’s restrictions on iOS and iPadOS browsers are the only thing stopping an effective Google monopoly over web browsers. Ideally Firefox would still keep things in balance, but Mozilla doesn’t seem to know what it’s doing these days in terms of building market share - and I say that as a long time Firefox user.
I still remember the IE 6 era, and I hope we never see a single browser dominate the web again. To those wishing Apple would be forced to open up, be careful what you wish for.
- Firefox is in a pickle, because unlike the IE/Firefox, where FF was winning share by the boatload against a stagnant competitor, Chrome is super actively developed, active and heavily pushed by Google. Basically FF is now kept alive by Google the way you’d keep a single competitor city alive in Civilization to ensure you game wouldn’t end with a military/domination victory. FF is a Native American reservation surrounded by white folks not giving a shit about what happens on your dust bowl.
  But yes, FF for life for me!
- First time someone defends Apple, and for a good reason too.
- this is why I still have to have Chrome installed

Chromium, privacy chromium, corporate chromium, spyware chromium, there’s so much diversity! /s

Which spyware chromium do you mean? Chrome or Edge?

Lol.

Sent from Firefox Browser

The illusion of choice.

The strangle hold of control

Cue the chorus of lame excuses as for why people are still using Google Botnet instead of Firefox.

Nothing is worse than seeing chromium-based browser users fight other chromium-based browser users. You are all using the same fucking thing!

"It's funny to see people who use cars with V-8's argue about other models and makes of cars with V-8's, you're all using the same fucking thing!"
See how absolutely stupid as fuck that sounds? Cause all cars are different even though they use virtual identical model of engines? That's what you sound like.

Bring back Netscape! Actually I would take the old Opera. That was my browser of choice prior to the chrome integration.

Netscape IS Firefox.

Recently switched over to mull browser. Fork of the Firefox browser, works great so far. Also if you are unsure of the security of your browser, could use the website, browseraudit.com, that rates your current browsers. Runs 100+ against several tests and reports back.

You forgot Safari 🧭

As someone who is a frontend engineer, Safari is the new IE11
Safari isn't a chrome based browser though?
- Neither is Firefox. That's the joke...

or, as i call it: Spyware Safari

Add www.ecosia.org to that list. Or at least their browser.

we have you surrounded!! come out with your browser running chrome

Where is Netscape!

There really needs to be a "Linux" of browser engines.

Isn't that gecko, Firefox's engine?
- No, chromium is the Linux of browsers.
I'd argue that's what Gecko is tbh
Is that not what Chromium is? An open source browser that anyone can adapt to suit their needs.

Oh cool. It's the same 5 memes reposted ad nauseam here too. Redditors gonna feel right at home.

The content doesn't come from nowhere. Whenever you're ready to start contributing, feel free.
- No contribute, only complain!
- Sure, if you count reposts as "contributions" I can easily contribute memes I copy paste from elsewhere.
  Won't do it tho.
Should be They Live glasses not Peter Parker anyway.

And we have safari too!

To be fair, WebKit is just Blinks (Chromium) sibling. I'm not sure if KHTML is proud or not.
- Blink has diverged enough from WebKit that they are separate engines now. KHTML has been sadly laid to rest.
  It’s a miserable state of affairs that we are effectively down to just 3 browser engines now, Blink, WebKit and Gecko. But with the ever increasing scope and complexity of web standards I don’t see that changing, unless someone throws a lot of extra support at the Servo project.

God damn I thought I saw the last of these stupid browser takes on reddit, chromium is open source and we've seen multiple browsers (Brave, Vivaldi, I think librewolf) using its potential to remove themselves from the chromium baseline and build out their own fork with ad blocking services that didn't go down when manifest V3 happened.

There's no "browser monopoly" anymore than there's a "V shaped engine" monopoly in cars. Why don't people use Gecko more? That's like asking why people don't use rotary piston engines in cars, you could, it's just garbage. Gecko isn't the standard because no one wants to build a web browser with it.

- not to mention just shitty to use.
  Come back to me when Firefox has workspaces, tab stacking, a side panel, and the rest of the aesthetic customization of Vivaldi.
  You're a fanboy, clearly, but you haven't actually argued why Firefox is better, just that you like it more because you're seething at chromium.
  Firefox lost because it used to be shitty and everyone just assumed it still is, whoops. Better luck next time. When Vivaldi stops blocking ads natively without an installed ad blocker (still haven't noticed any YouTube ads post V3) I'll consider switching. Until then, this "bUt cHrOmiUm" shit is just a joke.

I feel like we've seen this before..

Least we're got support for more fancy CSS properties nowdays, that's something I guess
- And Chromium renders transparent PNGs properly. That's also something, I guess.

So? Brave is way better than today's Firefox. And I say that after being an avid FF user for almost 19 years. I refuse to go back to it or to fuel the shitshow and cash-grab which is Mozilla nowadays.

So can someone confirm if 'they' ever got Chromecast access functional in Firefox yet? Last time I looked into it and tested it out the plugin or fx_bridge or whatever it was called was years ago and it never managed to work, which is the sole reason why I haven't switched to Firefox.

I mean, proprietary Google platform gonna proprietary Google platform.
- Chromium has that feature. Not only Chrome. So it can't be closed source.