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A comment on Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base?. Parent comment

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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