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Could someone explain in simple terms, what’s so tricky about spinning off a v2-compatible chromium fork?
Come join the Firefox revolution!
There was a point between IE and chrome when Mozilla was always in the near-foreground offering alternatives to every internet hegemony, right around web 2.0, kinda makes me optimistic for the internet to see a resurgence of recommendations
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> Can’t a non-crazy nonprofit make a browser? Here’s to hoping LadyBird remains non crazy and can be relevant by the time of their planned alpha release in 2026.
To be honest it needs a different name if it’s going to hit critical mass adoption with the average consumer.
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It’s so weird to observe how Alphabet doesn’t seem to even try to keep its parts separated. Amazon at least tries keeps its companies separated from each other. AWS account teams doesn’t know what Amazon teams do and vice versa. While Google Cloud account team constantly gets involved with Workspaces, Ads and Google Play related stuff. If I remember right just few years ago Google was told to stop giving cheaper pric…
> While Google Cloud account team constantly gets involved with Workspaces, Ads and Google Play related stuff. Not sure what you mean. Do you have a couple of concrete examples of that? > If I remember right just few years ago Google was told to stop giving cheaper prices on Google Cloud based on customers Ads and Google Play revenue. This one you've definitely just made up.
It was called "Project Hug". Based on the different sources it contained credits for all the google offerings such as Ads, Youtube and Google Cloud in exchange for keeping apps on the Google Play platform.
Different repots on this: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/google-reportedly-paid-activis... https://gizmodo.com/google-denies-its-project-hug-bribed-20-... https://www.theverge.com/23959932/epic-v-google-trial-antitr...
I don’t want to switch from it, especially to Firefox, so much. It’s in little things like context menus, gestures (don’t tell me about that “crx” extension crapware), tab order/cycle behaviors, downloads ux, bookmarks ux, customization, etc etc.
These “default” browsers always feel like Crysis 3 gameplay wrapped into a primitive text adventure interface.
Happened to me a couple of days ago. I installed Ublock Lite and it seems “good enough”.
Seriously, what is a good alternative to Chrome's password management? For lazy end users.