OK, did OMGUbuntu intentionally left out Brave as a Chromium based browser on Linux? Brave is FLOSS, the others (except Chromium, which is the base for these browsers) are proprietary.
"And since almost every other Chromium-based web browser is available on Linux (including Chromium, Google Chrome, Vivaldi and Opera) it’s a fairly logical assumption to think Edge will join their ranks."
And no we don't need a Microsoft browser on Linux. Especially not a proprietary one. If Microsft loves Linux, they would release this browser as Free Software, and not close source junk.
"Would Edge on Linux be a positive move?
I think so; choice is good for users. Not everyone is a dyed-in-the-wool FOSS fan fan sworn off anything with a vague whiff of proprietary licensing."
OMGUbuntu is shilling for proprietary junk? Why is that? Are they paid by Microsoft?
Oh yeah let our internet habits flow through Microsoft...
I seriously don't understand this attitude, especially one of the biggest Linux user site!
Hmm. Für #firefox habe ich eine Extension, die automatisch Videos von #youtube auf #invidious abspielt. Für #chromium / #chrome habe ich irgendwie sowas noch nicht gefunden. Hat jemand da was parat?
I think you're overstating your case here, to the point of misleading people. AFAIK Riot *itself* isn't non-free, it's desktop apps have a non-free dependency; #Electron. Actually Electron itself isn't non-free either, it also has a non-free dependency; #Chromium. Actually #Chromium itself isn't non-free either, it just has some dependencies whose license situation is unclear.
@alpacaherder My main laptop (6GiB RAM) goes OOM if #Chromium is the only thing open and I have more than about 5 JS-heavy tabs open. On the other hand, I can have a combined total of 150 tabs in 4 windows with #Firefox and #Palemoon and it will run for day without issue.
* The WebKit project was begun as a fork of KHTML and KJS libraries of KDE. In April 2013, Blink (the browser engine of Chrome) was created as a fork of of the WebCore of WebKit.
@jcbrand have you looked into #Ionic? It does essentially the same thing, but without bundling most of a #Chromium browser with your app. I was introduced to it at the recent #Coopathon in Hong Kong. The team I was part of used Ionic (with a #Horizon back-end) to build an MVP for a cross-platform app for use by foodbanks, in 48 hours. https://ionicframework.com/ @shura@z428
"If one product like #Chromium has enough market share, then it becomes easier for web developers and businesses to decide not to worry if their services and sites work with anything other than Chromium. That’s what happened when #Microsoft had a monopoly on browsers in the early 2000s before #Firefox was released. And it could happen again.
MS Edge is moving to #Chromium engine. Microsoft is finally going to develop an open source browser - or at least as open source as Google does.
This is essentially a bet that the browser engine wars are over. If that's right, the only way to influence web and de facto standards is to have a seat at the chromium table.
@zacts #Chromium is ultra bloaty. With several tabs open, it approaches 3GiB of RAM. #Firefox and #Palemoon, each with double the number of tabs, together total about 1.5GiB.