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Why no projects use Firefox as a base and prefer Chromium instead? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Before you come at me with stuff like Librewolf, Waterfox and IceCat; those don't count. They are just tweaked Firefox distros with mostly basic low level changes. Not every Chromium browser is super unique either, but I feel like there are more differences between them then there are with Firefox distros. Why is that? Why there aren't different browsers that use Firefox's engines but provide a different UX?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

If that were the case, where FOSS enthusiasts would prefer to base their software on Firefox for reasons above, then we would've seen more projects use Firefox and less of Chromium by now (outside of the ones listed from the original post above), no?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

That's my point. There could be something stopping them from doing so, Firefox was quite popular at one point and even than I don't think there were alternatives to mainline Firefox, I feel like there should be a reason for this.