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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by endymi0n on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @02:38AM (#18597174)
While I'm with you on the variety side, lest not forget that Chromium is at least open source, permitting other vendors to do a move like this instead of being left in the cold (and in this way probably committing back to the project). The flip side here is that building a fully featured browser engine from scratch that is "just" good enough to render 80% of pages correctly is a herculean, almost impossible task in 2018. Browsers went from graphic tools to browse the Internet to a full blown Operating System with sandboxed arbitrary code execution, intricate cross-origin rules, staged caching, full vector graphics animation systems and whatnot.

Although I would have loved even more choice (or MS championing the superb Firefox rendering engine instead), I think we're already well off with two fully featured and completely open source browser engines.

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by JohnBooty on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @12:38PM (#18601623) 

   > building a fully featured browser engine from 
   > scratch that is "just" good enough to render 80% 
   > of pages correctly is a herculean, almost impossible 
   > task in 2018.
Absolutely!

   > I think we're already well off with two fully 
   > featured and completely open source browser engines.
Well, that's the problem. The death of Edge brings us one step closer to a browser monoculture.

Which is apparently something developers want, since apparently none of them were working in the industry the last time we had a monoculture.

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Re:Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge ... by headmelted on Thursday December 06, 2018 @10:45PM (#18624969)
This is my point distilled exactly.

It doesn't matter if HN uses Firefox. It doesn't matter if web developers like us the world over use Firefox.

Ezra and Taylor just want to manage their personal brands and don't care about all that nerd stuff.

We'll build for where the audience is, and they're not going to switch for any of the reasons in this thread. It works good enough as it is.

Yes, Chrome is open source, but in marketing/critical mass terms this is no different than last time.

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