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Re:Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s ... by K0nserv on Thursday June 08, 2017 @01:23PM (#14515607)
> It is not the same thing. Chromium ( upon which Chrome is based ) is open source. If Google abuses their power it is easier to correct course by forking. In fact, many browsers like Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, Yandex etc are already based on Chromium

Even though that's all true, standardizing on a single base implementation for rendering and Javascript rutime is not good for the web.

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Re:Celebrate the web by using another browser than Google’s ... by bddenhartog on Friday June 09, 2017 @03:39PM (#14523856)
Why not? I'd argue that a single open source standard would spur development of new features, performance enhancements, and bug fixes at an incredibly fast rate.
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