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All Except For Firefox

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3 months ago 2,660,075 views 0 shares

All Except For Firefox

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Top panel: squinting at a diverse browser ecosystem with Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, Opera, and others. Bottom panel: putting on glasses only to realize they're all just Chromium in different costumes, with Firefox standing alone like the last Jedi.

Google basically won the browser wars by open-sourcing Chromium and letting everyone build their "unique" browser on top of it. Edge? Chromium. Opera? Chromium. Brave? Chromium with crypto sprinkled on top. It's like going to a restaurant where every dish is just ramen with different toppings.

Firefox remains the stubborn holdout with its Gecko engine, which is either admirable dedication to web standards diversity or digital masochism depending on how your latest CSS bug is going. Either way, Mozilla's out here fighting the good fight while the rest of us pretend our Chromium fork is "totally different."

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