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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by SquareWheel on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:06AM (#19169029)
Hopefully Mozilla will have some luck modernizing by replacing pieces one at a time with Rust components. ;)
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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by xg15 on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:35AM (#19169405)
What do Firefox implementation details have to do with this?
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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by SquareWheel on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:44AM (#19169431)
They are modernizing the browser by replacing pieces over time. That's relevant to the topic of browsers being built on legacy tech.
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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by xg15 on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:49AM (#19169447)
I don't see how this supports to the argument that you can easily build a new, competing browser by forking. If you fork and then need the same kind of resources to replyce the forked codebase with your own, I don't see what you'd win.
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