Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base?

Re:Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firef... by toyg on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @05:15AM (#29904474)

This was the biggest fumble of the Mozilla strategy in the last 20 years. Instead of focusing on the developer market, particularly after the appearance of WebKit, they bet (half) the farm on a quixotic quest to build a mobile OS from scratch. By attempting to gain a level of control that was always unlikely, they endangered their own survival.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firef... by elevaet on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:50AM (#29905109)

I would have made that same mistake if I was making decisions for Mozilla at the time. It's such an elegant, logical and tempting ideal to turn the browser into the OS. Too bad it didn't work out.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firef... by zdkl on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:09AM (#29905283)

Well, now we have PWAs. I'd be more than a bit bitter if I was a mozilla dev tasked with making those work on android/ios instead of on firefoxOs.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firef... by toastal on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @09:05AM (#29906417)

Good luck getting Apple to allow basic features like storage without weird limits, notifications, and the rest of the list. They killed Flash in favor of HTML5+JS and then decided for the walled garden.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firef... by toastal on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:04AM (#29904807)

KaiOS though has had success. If anything FxOS was ahead of its time and targeting a market too small.

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