Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by andrekandre on Saturday January 11, 2020 @09:18PM
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> Meanwhile, WebKit-based browsers doesn't seem to suffer from the overuse of dependencies and multiple languages nor does it have packaging hell unlike Chromium and Firefox.
why is that?
Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by saagarjha on Saturday January 11, 2020 @10:01PM
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WebKit is commonly used on many platforms, so I’d guess that plays a big role in it.
Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by kevingadd on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:25AM
(#22025755)
In the case of Blink at least, they basically own almost all their dependencies. From my memory WebKit is the same. It makes sense that they would end up that way given their history - KHTML -> Safari -> Chrome all target multiple runtime environments and in the case of Safari especially they were targeting an environment without a bunch of existing unix/linux history behind it.
In comparison historically Firefox has been more aggressive about pulling in 3rd-party dependencies like cairo, ANGLE, etc.
(You could count ANGLE as a 3rd-party dependency for Blink, I suppose, but I don't because AFAIK it's a Google project originally)
Brave and Vivaldi are still forks of Chromium, Waterfox is a fork of Firefox. Thus you are not going to find any updated alternatives like those on the BSDs anytime soon.
Meanwhile, WebKit-based browsers doesn't seem to suffer from the overuse of dependencies and multiple languages nor does it have packaging hell unlike Chromium and Firefox.