Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
by pkasting on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @11:42AM
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Igalia is a valued Chromium contributor, but your notion that they do a near-majority of the dev work is off by an order of magnitude.
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
by jacoblambda on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @11:51AM
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Ah yep. I'm mistaken there. I had read somewhere at one point that they were the second largest contributor to Chromium and made assumptions I shouldn't have. My apologies.
Re:I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
by bkardell on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:56AM
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Last autumn we finally fell to third behind Microsoft, in fairness.. But we're also the second biggest contributors to WebKit (really significant there) and Gecko too, as well as the #1 contributors to Servo, and more - if you're interested: https://bkardell.com/blog/2024-Midseason.html
In more polite terms they are framing themselves as an ideal long term steward for the chromium project given that courts have already ruled that Google isn't a suitable steward anymore. Chromium wouldn't be so problematic if it wasn't run by such an anticompetitive organisation. If the Linux Foundation ran chromium and orgs like Igalia (who already do a near majority of the dev work for chromiumm) took over the brunt of senior development and leadership control then it'd be a pretty solid technology stack (albeit with some weaknesses).
I personally prefer Firefox and it's associated technologies but I also acknowledge the appeal of Chromium distributions like Vanadium.