Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side

Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by Barrin92 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:50PM (#22427743)

>They will eventually have to maintain a hard fork, the differences will grow such that they eventually have to increase their engineering spend on it to keep pace with just managing the rebases and patches or reimplement features themselves,

This sounds dramatic but Microsoft is a company with 150000 employees. Maintaining a fork of Chromium while open source development continues is probably not an insurmountable feat, and I don't see why it is in principle more work than switching to and contributing to Gecko.

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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by imtringued on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:58AM (#22432796)

If it is that easy and obvious why did they stop working on their own engine then?

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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by Barrin92 on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:11PM (#22444276)

probably because nobody was using their browser any more? (other than people who can't delete it from their work computers I guess)

In terms of market share Chromium has essentially won. It's where all the addons are, it's what websites are being optimised for, and so on.

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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by cocoa19 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @09:37PM (#22429854)

Companies don't throw money at products just because they can.

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