![]() ![]() It seems to me that if compatibility and simplification were the drivers, then the reason why Microsoft chose Blink is almost a no-brainer. Microsoft hasn't, as far as I know, issued any statements or advisories about why Microsoft chose Blink (Chrome) instead of Gecko (Firefox), but it did issue a number of statements indicating that Microsoft's motive in replacing IE/Edge was to improve compatibility and simplify web-based design/deployment. There are many possibilities, hard to trace the issue without So I'm both curious and really interested to know the logic and reason that why Microsoft chose Chromium instead of Firefox." Regarding Vivaldi, maybe there was a problem with the vivaldi itself or Gmail, or even a bug in chromium. Then it that case user agent switching should generally prevent them from doing so. Most chromium based browsers just change their user interface and add some extra features (e.g integrating with a specific service or adding an ad blocker) without touching the core engine, and even if they do, they will probably upstream (contribute) the changes back into the original code (Chromium).īut let's say that they edit their site's or services (like youtube) in a way that it favors Chrome or constantly asks the user to consider switching to it. Besides, it goes through many reviews and isn't instantly merged into their Stable branch which Chrome is built on. It certainly isn't an easy task to take Chrome's marketshare away, but i doubt its the goal.Īnd while Chromium is a free and open source project developed by Google, modifying the source code in a way that it affect's chrome's performance positively while lowering other's shouldn't go unnoticed. Mobile devices remain, and the popularity of search engines also plays a role in this. The ability to have a web browser pre installed on most of desktop devices alone has a significant influence on this. Hope this Infact Google's popular services such as YouTube allowed them to kill IE6 in the past.īut we should also not neglect the fact that Microsoft has their own marketing capabilities, too. The real question after a while should be: why would anyone choose to use a different browser other than the pre-installed one that is equal, if not better? Less browser diversity = Less targets to test forĪlthough having a monopoly in the market should generally be bad, chromium, unlike IE is not closed source and can always be forked. Many sites are created and run by developers who haven’t read and don’t care about web standards this is why all the effort to create a real standards-compliant browser fail, They either have to create fixes (hacks) for nearly every site (Almost Impossible) or switch to chromium. Compatibility Because of chromium's massive marketshare, most of web contents are built/optimized with chrome in mind. Familiarity Chrome has the most amount of extensions available, something the classic edge has always lacked, building upon Chromium's Foundation should make the transition from other web browsers easier and smoother for the end-users.Ĥ. Stability/ Reliability With Servo around and major rewrites of the Gecko's components in Rust already in-progress, Gecko wouldn't really be a viable optionģ. Microsoft already added support for PWAs in Edge, now they should work with other browsers vendors to add missing functionality, like file system access.Ģ. Its worth mentioning that Progressive Web Apps are the upcoming alternatives to Electron. ![]() (There's a reason everyone's going with Webkit/Blink) And since Microsoft acquired Github along with Electron, which is already using Chromium's engine at its core, improving and integrating the new Chromium-based edge should result in Electron apps being both faster and smaller in size. ![]() Integration It's harder to embed Gecko compared to Blink. A technical and business perspective it was better to choose Blink over Gecko due to several reasonsġ. ![]()
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