And Internet Explorer was at 70%+ before 2009. If you go back to 2009, which is the oldest data the website of the link in the previous paragraph can provide, you can see that there only have been Internet Explorer and Firefox. The only "broadly known" browsers that aren't Chromium based are Firefox (Gecko) and Safari (Webkit). I don't understand why history always needs to repeat itself because humans are too ignorant and stupid to learn from the past. (Edit: This link says "By 2000, IE had a 95% market share it was the de facto industry standard") Why do people recommend Brave? A Chromium based browser? The same base Google uses with Chrome, which is on the way to be the new InternetExplorer6?. And Microsoft didn't care to improve it in anyway, because there was no competitor worth caring about. The biggest piece of shit browser that ever existed. Before Firefox1 came to life and literally SAVED the web, we had to use InternetExplorer6. If not I would recommend you to read through this. Have you been alive before Firefox v1 came to life? If yes, that's why. Because Firefox in particular is so configurable, it can be made much better than any alternative for privacy.Īnd here is another comment from u/randomDarkPrincess
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There are options that Firefox exposes for users to change that are impossible to change in any Chromium-based browser without altering the source code (at least as far as I'm aware - there may be some odd exception out there). That would be bad.Īnother factor against Chromium-based browsers is that they're simply not as configuravle as Firefox. If Firefox were to disappear for example, then all the main browsers in the world would be Chromium based, with their core code controlled by Google. So there still might be bits in there that allows Google to capture some of your data (unlikely, but possible).Īnother important aspect to consider is that privacy enthusiasts generally want to support browser alternatives. Other Chromium based browsers, like Brave, Ungoogled Chromium, Iridium, etc., do put a lot of effort into removing the Google specific service use from Chromium, but they pretty much all say that they can't guarantee that they've removed it all. As you're aware, Google write the Chromium source code while baking in lots of connections to Google services (such as their geolocation service, and absolutely loads more). It becomes an ad-company controlled web.Īlthough Chromium is Open Source, it's still a browser engine - so it's complex. If we don't defend that choice, then all is lost, including privacy.
Not even the "open" Chromium will have the cloud to stop that, and Google can make changes Chromium will have to take or be increasingly isolated and irrelevant.Ĭhoice matters, and we are at the point of losing all choice in browsers. Like breaking all privacy-related extensions. Things like breaking all ad-blocking extensions. They can arbitrarily do what they want.and what we DON'T want. Once we hand Google the ultimate authority over the web, because they de-facto rule it by controlling the last browser left, we have given away all control. Every other one is a reskin of either Chrome or FF. Right now we have FF which is losing market share, and aside from single-vendor closed browsers like Safari, that's it. I don't even agree with many of the choices Moz has made for FF, but think about what happens if we make all browsers into Chrome based browsers.
don't let Chrome become the new IE.įirefox can be configured to be more private than Chrom* can be configured to be, but that's not the main concern IMO. they can implement intentionally not universally compatible features that further entrench chromium over other browser engines. they can build more and more restrictive and user-unfriendly functions into the browser. support Mozilla people!) is the day that chromium, dominated by google, dictates web standards. The day that blink (chromium) becomes the mono-engine (and we're damn close to it. I will answer for 'Why not any chromium based browsers ?' I would like to chime in about why Firefox is important for open internet which is not controlled by Google( one of largest ad organization on planet). This is a really good explanation why you should use Firefox as your daily browser.Įdit for better readability and future reference:
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