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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What makes firefox's backend better? I've been considering switching from it lately.

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[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (1 child)

It's not chrome

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[–] blah3166@piefed.social 15 points 4 months ago

Basically this.

Any browser that leverages Google's Chromium project is enabling Google to continue to drive the web. Alternative browsers, first and foremost, must not be built using Chromium.

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[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 7 points 4 months ago

Not that Firefox's back end is better rather that every other browser out there is some form of chromium which means Google getting to control the internet.

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Chromium based ones are at the mercy of Google. Firefox, however, is independent in that sense.

When google decides to drop support for manifest V2 (which is the one unlock origin uses), every chromium browser drops support for it. Unless they make a fork of chromium and add manifest V2 back in. Which means extra effort every time they want to update with upstream, since there probably will be merge conflicts.

Firefox can just not drop support for it, literally 0 effort.

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