Chromium is a gigantic codebase that requires a team of experts to maintain, tests, and add features to. It’s far more complicated than just forking it. If this was easy, then people would’ve done this a long time ago.
These are products maintained by companies with a lot of funding behind them. I’m talking about a community effort to continue developing Chromium if it continues to become shittier.
edit: I’m referring to community forks of Chromium here
I mean a majority of chromium PRs are from Google. So yes, but youd think it would be easier for whoever bought it or OpenAI to do that with their money printing machines
Naturally, but if OpenAI takes Chrome in an even worse direction than Google, it’s going to be a huge challenge to make a sustainable fork of it that’s governed by the community.
Same, it seems like there needs to be a new foundation that’s specifically focused on Firefox and nothing else. The problem with Mozilla is that they keep trying to do all kinds of stuff instead of just focusing on making a good browser.
Chromium is a gigantic codebase that requires a team of experts to maintain, tests, and add features to. It’s far more complicated than just forking it. If this was easy, then people would’ve done this a long time ago.
People have done it. It’s called Edge, Opera, Vivaldi etc. And looking at it historically, Safari is a branch from the same tree as well.
These are products maintained by companies with a lot of funding behind them. I’m talking about a community effort to continue developing Chromium if it continues to become shittier.
edit: I’m referring to community forks of Chromium here
Isn’t open ai a giant company?
OpenAI is going to have no problems maintaining Chromium. I’m talking about maintenance of community forks of Chromium.
I mean a majority of chromium PRs are from Google. So yes, but youd think it would be easier for whoever bought it or OpenAI to do that with their money printing machines
Naturally, but if OpenAI takes Chrome in an even worse direction than Google, it’s going to be a huge challenge to make a sustainable fork of it that’s governed by the community.
Hot take here: community browsers shouldn’t be based on chromium due to googles monopoly, manifest v3 being a big sign.
I very much agree, I think Firefox is a far better platform to build on.
I just wish mozilla got their shit together is all.
Same, it seems like there needs to be a new foundation that’s specifically focused on Firefox and nothing else. The problem with Mozilla is that they keep trying to do all kinds of stuff instead of just focusing on making a good browser.
Like a Phoenix foundation that mainly works on firefox stuff and mozilla uses that to make tye firefox browser like how Google does with chrome
I think you would assume OpenAI and Microsoft had the backing for doing it though.
I was referring to people trying to fork Chromium as open source.