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Why no projects use Firefox as a base and prefer Chromium instead? (lemmy.ml)
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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

There is still an effort going on in the Sailfish OS web browser to separate the UI from the core browser. But they're still about 18 versions behind the current Firefox version. The README of the project contains some link to useful resources about how it works.

Embedding chromium/webkit is just way easier. I honestly wonder why SailfishOS went that route. Maybe it's a continuation of some legacy project form Maemo/MeeGo?