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Re:Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy by nateb2022 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @09:37AM (#33984008)
This isn't a fork of Electron. It is an Electron-based app, and as such the Electron project maintains the core functionality of the browser and Min just presents a unified interface and feature set.
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Re:Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy by DoctorOW on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @09:58AM (#33984284)
They didn't say "fork of Electron", rather Electron is essentially "Chromium - browser UI" so they are saying there is a simplification to be made in an app that is "Chromium - browser UI + browser UI"
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Re:Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy by jefftk on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:10AM (#33984471)
> They didn't say "fork of Electron"

Flagging that the phrase "this should be a fork of Chromium, not Electron" is ambiguous between "this shouldn't be a fork of Electron" and "this shouldn't be Electron".

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Re:Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy by nebulous1 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:21AM (#33984671)
The phrasing is ambiguous, I agree. However, as forking Electron to make Min wouldn't make any sense, and the replier knew this, reading it to mean that seems like a mistake to me. The fact is that it can be very difficult to write things that aren't ambiguous at some level (albeit that isn't the case here), so the reader has to make a good-faith effort to understand.
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Re:Min: A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:33AM (#33984876)
Fwiw, I read it the same way as nateb2022 at first. It took a second read to realize there was another interpretation. This is why writing is hard!
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