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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Back in the day, Firefox was literally not as good as Chrome. I personally think that has reversed and it's now much better than Chrome. Leagues better, now that Chrome is banning UBlock Origin. I do wish we had more competition than just Chrome, Safari, and Firefox though...

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah any other alternatives? There’s arc, but I think that’s just chromium underneath (see above, meme)

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's ladybird and servo, but neither are near a release and ladybird won't even have an alpha til 2026.

[–] mke@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And to make matters more complicated,

  • Servo, as far I know, has no plans to be a browser. Instead, they want to offer an alternative to Blink (the Chrome rendering engine), so that other software can be made with it. This seems to a common misconception.
  • Ladybird's project lead and main developer, Andreas Kling, may or may not hold controversial views that some would prefer to avoid supporting.

I really want there to be more options in the browser market that aren't Blink based (or WebKit, sorry Apple), but the situation's tough.