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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by tedunangst on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:01PM (#21826858)
I still don't know what that means. I run chromium. It has an address bar. I can change the search engine.
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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by Retric on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:08PM (#21828137)
It means you can change how the address bar behaves in a complex fashion without changing the rest of the browser’s code.

Suppose you wanted a deeper change like it to automatically add .com .org etc to the address entered as long as that’s not a phishing website. Now you needed to maintain that patch going forward and reapply it to every new version of the base browser. That’s much safer if the address bar’s code is isolated from the rest of the browser.

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