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0 pointsberbec7y ago0 comments

Next to no one uses Chromium. The integrations usually start in Chrome, leaving Chromium pure, allowing Opera etc to forge their own path. This is a disturbing trend to change the course of the project, likely due to Edge being based on Chromium.

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jbigelow767y ago

I bet a decent chunk of the MS engineers lobbied to adopt Gecko instead of Chromium when they decided to move away from EdgeHtml. I wonder what the reasoning was for not going that route, it seems like a huge miss and a total acceptance of a browser monoculture.

ChrisSD7y ago

Gecko is deep in to a transitional phase. Once it comes out the other end it may be simple to embed but it's currently far too early for that.

On the other hand Chromium is relatively simple to adapt with many real world examples to learn from.

(Personally I think they should stick with EdgeHtml but it seems that ship has sailed).

dralley7y ago

I wish they would have thrown in with the Servo project, but Chromium is ready now and Servo isn't, so I'm sure that factored in.

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addicted7y ago

nodeJS uses Chromium and not Gecko. I suspect MS’s requirements basically necessitated the use of Chromium.

However, this does provide an opening for MS edge, if MS forks Chromium for Edge and excludes user hostile “features” such as this.

sireat7y ago

Sadly the only use of Chromium among regular non-tech people is in spyware/malware installations.

There is a quite a bit of adware which uses unsigned Chromium to push their wares.

That is the malware installs a modified Chromium with all the "extras".

So anecdotally, when I see Chromium on a users computer I assume the worst (that I have a cleanup task ahead).

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