Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn

Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn by meesles on Thursday July 27, 2023 @11:52AM (#36895459)

I agree with you, but it sometimes feels like a 'great browser' is supposed to be free, bleeding-edge while also backwards compatible, tracking-free, ad-free, and somehow altruistic and for the good of the open web.

Where are we getting these absolutely unattainable ideals from? Who can possibly support and fund such a project besides an enterprise?

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Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn by jollyllama on Thursday July 27, 2023 @11:55AM (#36895499)

Can I get a decent bookmark manager and more than X months of history? What's so unattainable about that?

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Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn by markstos on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:11PM (#36895775)

I like Pinboard as a bookmark manager. Browser and platform independent!

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Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn by mattl on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:36PM (#36897255)

Raindrop.io seems to be better these days, plus Pinboard posts stuff like this... https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1628462667559239680

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Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn by Fabricio20 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:04PM (#36898567)

You should check out History Trends Unlimited! I also wanted an unlimited history and since no browser supports it, someone made an extension. It even automatically backs up your history for you in a neat litte zip file!

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Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn by smoldesu on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:00PM (#36895590)

> Who can possibly support and fund such a project besides an enterprise?

KHTML was doing fine before Microsoft, Google and Apple forked their codebase.

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Re:Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn by markstos on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:13PM (#36895791)

The definition of “what is a browser” was much simpler then.

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