As Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin and other unsupported extensions, rivals like Brave and now Opera have confirmed they will support it. The latter has explained how it hopes to do so.
  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 day ago

    If the chrome market share significantly degrades then google will stop pumping so much money into it.

    And considering basically everyone but Firefox (and maybe Safari?) are based on Chromium to some degree…

    • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Safari is WebKit, which branched off from Chrome when Google forked WebKit into Blink. So they’re like siblings.

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Technically, Chrome branched off from Safari when they forked WebKit into Blink…

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      And considering basically everyone but Firefox (and maybe Safari?) are based on Chromium to some degree…

      Opera Browser (before it was sold to a Chinese company) did have its own browser engine before it went Chromium. It was called Presto. source. The team that used to own/run Opera before the sale to China formed again to make the Vivaldi browser.

      Vivaldi and Brave will continue to support Manifest V2 addons (like uBlock Origin) until July 2025. The article doesn’t say how long Opera will continue, but I’m guessing its the same deadline of July too.

      • cfi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Presto era Opera was fantastic. At the time Firefox was kinda stagnating and Opera was just innovating.

        • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 day ago

          You might like Vivaldi, they’re the most innovative chromium derived browser that I’ve used

          • Einar@lemm.eeEnglish
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            1 day ago

            I love Vivaldi. Am sad it’s Chromium. Wish Firefox would take a page out of Vivaldi’s features book and innovation approach.

      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 day ago

        So… basically everyone but Firefox (and maybe Safari?) are based on Chromium to some degree?

        Because if there is not massive amounts of money and resources pumped into Chromium development? Vivaldi and Brave will be up a creek

        • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
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          5 hours ago

          So… basically everyone but Firefox (and maybe Safari?) are based on Chromium to some degree?

          Technically Chromium is based on Safari to some degree, but they split ways a long, long time ago.

          Ladybird is eventually going to be a brand new browser on its’ own engine, hopefully.

          Servo is being worked on again, so that’s something.