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God damn I thought I saw the last of these stupid browser takes on reddit, chromium is open source and we've seen multiple browsers (Brave, Vivaldi, I think librewolf) using its potential to remove themselves from the chromium baseline and build out their own fork with ad blocking services that didn't go down when manifest V3 happened.
There's no "browser monopoly" anymore than there's a "V shaped engine" monopoly in cars. Why don't people use Gecko more? That's like asking why people don't use rotary piston engines in cars, you could, it's just garbage. Gecko isn't the standard because no one wants to build a web browser with it.
Come back to me when Firefox has workspaces, tab stacking, a side panel, and the rest of the aesthetic customization of Vivaldi.
You're a fanboy, clearly, but you haven't actually argued why Firefox is better, just that you like it more because you're seething at chromium.
Firefox lost because it used to be shitty and everyone just assumed it still is, whoops. Better luck next time. When Vivaldi stops blocking ads natively without an installed ad blocker (still haven't noticed any YouTube ads post V3) I'll consider switching. Until then, this "bUt cHrOmiUm" shit is just a joke.
Source? I've never heard of ubo and I see zero ads minus exceptions to websites I support. It sounds like you've never actually used the browser.
Edit: u block origin, guess I should have known but I've never heard of anyone using that acronym.
None of that is chromium. Vivaldi could have built that on top of Firefox, but didn't. As to why Firefox is better, the very fact that it's an alternative that is keeping up technically is a benefit. It's less a 'V-shaped engine' monopoly and moreso a 'V8 engine made by a specific company' monopoly. They have far too much control over the direction of web standards. Much of what they are doing is actually good, but it should then be spread based on merit, rather than because they directly control almost the entire market.
Speaking as a web dev; it still sucks when the whole world has coded against a piece of software, rather than a standard, even if that software currently has a relatively permissive license.
Take Microsoft; they decided they didn't even want to maintain their own engine. This ultimately means they're generally relying on the core maintenance of the main Webkit channel, and probably not scrutinizing its workings all that much, as they just work on new features.