Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge

Re:Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge by giancarlostoro on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:12AM (#19613185)

So when they say they removed these they mean source code wise not just some compiler flag? Thus making it a proper fork that will deviate over time, not some simple Chromium renamed project. So we may or may not see them pull in Chromium changesets depending on needs.

My biggest hope is that no matter how much Microsoft changes (Chakra instead of V8 would be very interesting to see) that it will remain fully and properly open source moving forward. I wanted to see the original Edge go this route but at least now they can.

Funny how these are now all browsers derived from work by Apple.

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Re:Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge by vbezhenar on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:39AM (#19613306)

Webkit based on KHTML, component of KDE.

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Re:Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge by giancarlostoro on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:28AM (#19613536)

This is true as well, although my understanding is that they reworked all of that original code if I'm not mistaken, but nonetheless, a huge amount of credit belongs to both KDE and Apple regardless, which I find fascinating because: Google, Microsoft, and even Amazon (with their Chrome fork for their Fire tablets) benefited from it.

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