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I use Firefox, but I do run into a lot of problems with sites not working correctly. Makes me want to switch to Brave occasionally.
Brave is still Chromium based which means giving control over the internet to Google regardless
How about Vivaldi? Is it also chromium based? Any experience with it? Been eying it as a potential replacement for brave. Firefox is such a mess I don't even want to touch it.
Also Chromium. What do you find such a mess about Firefox? When was the last time you used it?
I have to concede it's been a few years since I used it, but saw reports of people having unstable Firefox installs in various places like Youtube and Mastodon. I will give it another go but I would love an alternative to try too.
I've used Firefox exclusively for a decade and have never had Firefox be the cause of a site not working properly. What the hell sites are you trying to use that FF is breaking?
Hotels.com last time I was visiting another country for example. A fair few other big sites are not working as expected either.
Still primarily use Firefox, but the fact is that due to small market share almost no testing is ever done on sites against Firefox.
Keep using Firefox. We're now returning to the Era where websites only worked with Internet Explorer but in this case, it is chrome. We can't let that happen.
In my opinion, this is not as big of a deal as, since WebKit/Blink is open source. Everybody could just use the same engine and just build their version of the browser around it. Firefox doesn’t need to maintain their own engine.
It's not that simple. Google is now a major driving force in the web standard consortium. Forking Blink doesn't stop Google from pushing more and more ridiculous web standard. The only way to stop it is by reducing chromium market share which will also reduce Google influence in the consortium.