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[–] [email protected] 83 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Will it though? Seems like the kind of task that requires a huge amount of effort, way beyond the kind of capacity you get from casual contributions in peoples' spare time...might be difficult to maintain feature parity and implement new standards without a full time team on it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

couldnt you say the same about linux?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

Linux is currently mostly made by big corpo, but they are held by community and Linus'es checks.

Unfortunetly for browsers most of the giants focused on Chromium, which Google has final say over. Also Linux is OS, where browser should be simple and websites should work even if some one API is not supported. In Chromium's world web"apps" are won't be compatible with anything non-Chromium. Any browser would be required to support 99+% of Chromium features or not work.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Linux is cheating by having every major tech company help develop the kernel

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Sounds like we just gotta add Firefox to the kernel while Linus is on vacation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

firefox doesnt have any corporate friends besides mozilla?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

Not many and none that I can think of with deep pockets (besides google). I think the corporate world has almost completely piled on Chrome.