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   Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 05:15:09 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

   There was a time when #Firefox was the choice in creating a new browser. It ended after #Chromium came into the picture.

   I don't know why, I can't find information about it, but if I'll take a guess:
   1. Something changed in Firefox that it's no longer a good choice to fork and create new browsers.
   2. Chromium made it very easy to build a new browser on top of it.

   The only remaining Firefox forks are #Palemoon, #Waterfox, #LibreWolf, #フロープ ( #Floorp ), #Basilisk, GNU IceCat, and Tor Browser.

   So, what happened, really? Anyone with the knowledge? Was it really as simple as #2 (see above)?

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     yoasif (yoasif@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2024 08:57:03 JST yoasif

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     @youronlyone Pointless to base your browser on an engine that gets worse web compatibility. With Chromium, you get to free-ride off of Google and Microsoft.

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     DorpMarfin12 (dorpmarfin12@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 14:26:48 JST DorpMarfin12

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     @youronlyone Maybe compatibility and easier to use chromium instead? I see that firefox forks are going more with ESR that is older, it seems a mess to use other versions

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     ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him) (chiraag@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 12:33:36 JST ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)

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     @youronlyone Firefox started hard-coding more stuff UI-wise, so e.g. just taking the engine and building your own UI on top of it became a lot more difficult.