• LeTak@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Chrome was not always based on chromeium. Chrome was based on Apple WebKit until 2013 when they forked WebKit and made the Blink engine.

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      1 year ago

      Opera was the shit back in the early days. It could pretend to be any other browser.

    • Espi@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I have an installer for Opera 12.18, the last one to use their Presto engine. Every once in a while I test it out to see how it has aged.

      It’s not pretty haha. It barely works.

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      1 year ago

      Been using FF for about 2 decades now and I have never seen a single good reason to switch.

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        1 year ago

        Ditto. As much as people pretend Firefox is niche, it is the only browser with lineage back to the start of the web.

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      Yep, just like slack, spotify, and anything else looking fancy while wasting few gigs of ram to just open. They’re built on electron, which is practically chrome without tabs.

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        I wish they could bring back mozilla prism. Like all this electron web app shit is popular, so we don’t we use the faster and more efficient browser engine and use gecko!