Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser

Re:Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser by throw16489 on Friday March 04, 2022 @12:17AM (#30550957)

// Unlike Mozilla, they don't need to make exceptions for Google.

// They're not like Mozilla that sits 7 years on a ticket.

Suppose a browser is an iceberg. Mozilla has to maintain, improve and develop on the whole of the iceberg. In case of Brave, Google and Chromium developers do maybe 90 or 95% of the iceberg? My understanding is that the Chromium codebase is one of the largest and complex ones ever? I also read somewhere is has a large amount of churn/flux, but not sure.

I'm not saying Brave does not add anything of value, but let's do a fair comparison.

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Re:Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser by fleddr on Friday March 04, 2022 @06:04AM (#30553134)

You're absolutely right, but not everybody understands the consequences.

Mozilla/Gecko is on life support with no light at the end of the tunnel. When the ex-CTO of Mozilla picks Chromium to run Brave, and Microsoft picks Chromium for Edge, things become pretty clear: Chromium/V8 is the standard. And not just the standard, also the superior, future-proof engine.

So yes, Brave gets a lot of things "for free", but that's a smart move. Ultimately users and developers don't care.

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Re:Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser by soundnote on Friday March 04, 2022 @07:32AM (#30553801)

Brave was originally based on Gecko, for what it's worth.

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Re:Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser by fleddr on Friday March 04, 2022 @02:49PM (#30559493)

I did not know that, that makes it even more painful.

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