This is surely a smokescreen for Google’s monopolization of Internet standards.
And even if weren’t, I cannot emphasize enough how much that list of companies should also NOT be in charge of setting open standards. Oligopoly, monopoly with the illusion of choice…
Oh, surely.
Wait. Non-profits looking to shepherd the upstream used by a dozen derivatives; that’s BAD now?
Why not firefox?
Whoa whoa. Let’s pick up the build of Mozilla’s ditched namesake and confirm a future there, and then maybe consider their next discard. Wait; who’s got tbird? Can we rescue that first? Get their trash in ‘tip’ order, anyway.
Thunderbird and Firefox are fine, very actively maintained and adding features.
Thunderbird is back in active deleopmemt though, and not just as a maintenance project.
Because Librewolf exists already?
That’s based on Firefox…
It it Firefox, in that sense it’s not a hard fork, but it follows upstream. ;)
“Google could be forced to sell Chrome” was the news in late november so I guess this a reaction to that.
I want Chrome to be sold, honestly.
I still can’t get why Linux Foundation helped Google out of that.
This seems more a safeguard for if that happens, since Chromium project would be in jeopardy
they could easily have done this after the fact and avoided the current reality which Will be Google using Linux foundation funding to protect its monopoly of the ecosystem
So instead of proactively working to make sure it’s not just Google contributing to Chromium (contributions that could go away if sold off), you think it would be better to just let the worst happen and then start doing something about it?
Do you realize how much modern web relies on Chromium and how much of that is done by Google currently? It’s a terrible idea to have it the way it currently is and probably even worse if Chrome is sold.
Also the idea of widening the contributor base helping the monopoly is sorta backwards.
I still don’t get why Linux Foundation helped Google out of that.
I could be wrong, but I think that (at least to some extent) the Linux Foundation exists to be the more corporate-friendly face of
Free SoftwareOpen Source, as a reaction against/in opposition to the hard-line “end-user freedom” stance taken by GNU/the FSF. If that’s accurate, it doesn’t surprise me that it would take a soft position regarding Google’s monopolistic practices. Especially since Google is a gold member of it.Aren’t a good portion of contributors to the Linux kernel also employees of the major FAANG companies?
we remain committed to being the responsible steward of the Chromium project
https://blog.chromium.org/2025/01/announcing-supporters-of-chromium-based.html?m=1
So this neutral space is still subservient to Google’s whims.
So the Linux Foundation is in Google’s pocket. Good to know,
That’s a pretty unfair kneejerk without receipts.
When it comes to a megacorp like Alphabet/Google, assuming foul play and bribery should always be the kneejerk.
More likely, it’s calculated. The Linux Foundation probably did the math and realized that they could either participate in it, or watch Google run it themselves, packing the board with sycophants and leaving it with no real oversight.
This way, there’s actually a trusted nonprofit voice in the room.
I hope you’re right. I just have the problem of thinking if you’ve got 9 megacorp supports and one nonprofit, you have 10 supporters for the largest megacorp.
Maybe. Depends on what they do with it. But assuming they have any power on this board at all, it’ll be better that they’re there than if they weren’t. It’s not like Linux Foundation “keeping their hands clean” is going to help anything other than optics.
Why not Gnome web?
GNOME Web uses Webkit, that’s Apples browser engine
More accurately, It uses WebkitGTK, which is a fork of Webkit. Blink, the engine Chromium and Chromium based browsers use, is also a fork of Webkit.
Is it a hard fork? I thought it was just a soft fork
there’s a whole world of alternative, small, or minimalist non-Chromium non-Firefox browsers out there I would love to try out – but in today’s world, if it doesn’t support at least the full un-crippled version of uBlock Origin, it’s a complete non-starter
(considering general trends, I’m just gonna have to sit down and setup PiHole aren’t I?)
With Lynx, there’s even no need for plugins!
In all honesty, you should try it. Configure it adequately, and really trying it.
If people could respect the web standards and all have a text based version (aka working on Lynx), the web would be a better place for everyone - especially the impaired ones (blinds for example).
I would trash all the JavaScript in the world to have a functional text based web any day.
I find the ad blocking in Gnome Web to be sufficient. The biggest thing that is holding it back in my opinion is a lack of features like extentions and FIDO support and moderate performance.
