Browser Engine Competition
Comments discuss the extreme difficulty and cost of developing new browser engines, the dominance of Chromium/Blink leading to a monoculture, and desires for more competition and independent alternatives like Firefox or Servo.
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It's a reminder that browsers are such huge beasts that no one can viable fork them when they feel the browsers are regressing.
Building and maintaining a full browser isn't cheap, if it were there'd be more browser engines.
I don't think anyone will try. It's 'impossible' in the sense that both Microsoft and Opera threw in the towel and turned their browsers into Chromium skins. If even Microsoft can't pull it off, it seems unlikely anyone else is going to seriously try starting afresh.Mozilla have been successful in swapping out large chunks of their browser for superior replacements (for instance replacing the JIT, several times iirc), but that's not quite the same thing.Anothe
anything but chromium forks. i want real competition in the browser engine space
Why not invest in a competitive web browser?
If they were happy with using an existing browser engine, they wouldn't be writing one from scratch
Sadly, browser engines have become complicated enough, that an unfunded open source project is unsustainable after some time. In my opinion, Brave offers a new attempt to solve this (and other) problems with the modern web. I understand that not everybody likes this business model, but I think everybody has to decide on its own, which browser they want to use. After all, browser diversity is important.
Now only if they allow competing browser engine...
What are the opportunities now for browser forks and browser development?
This seems like quite a niche feature to build and market a browser around.