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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by fluffything on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:25AM (#20292629)
I think Edge is good for Chromium. That puts Microsoft as a stakeholder there too, which takes power away from Google. If Apple were to move to a chromium-backed Safari, that would mean that three major players would be stakeholders in Chromium having a sane future.

This means that if you send a meaningful patch, Google doesn't like it, but Microsoft and Apple do, it might get merged.

Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by throwaway2048 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:47AM (#20292736)
Google owns and controls the chromium project, if they don't like a patch, its not getting merged.
Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by dzhiurgis on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:27AM (#20292910)
I kinda agree that we don't need myriad of browsers. OS and CPU duopoly seems to be kinda ok. But for something that's _supposed to_ be universal it makes no sense to encourage fragmentation...

> chromium-backed Safari

Double whammy. Chromium runs on fork of WebKit which is Safari's engine.