Genuinely feeling like we need to organise an anti-Chrome movement in the same way we needed an anti-Internet Explorer movement a decade ago, the difference I guess being that Microsoft eventually joined the movement to kill it, whereas Google are unlikely to
Chrome is almost as dominant now (north of 60%) as Internet Explorer was during the second browser war
Unlike Internet Explorer, which did much of its damage by becoming the market leader and stagnating, the team behind Chrome is taking steps to actively sabotage user safety features and the standards upon which the open web is based
There are at least a couple of attempts to combat this but they're very basic
Anyway tl;dr for the health of the web please stop using Chrome and its derivatives1; use Firefox or Safari, or consider other non-Chrome-based alternatives like iCab. Google do not deserve to be entrusted with this much influence in this post-Don't Be Evil era
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Yes, that includes Brave, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, etc.; they all use Chrome's rendering engine and will almost certainly follow Google's lead on technical implementation and engine features. And that's on top of Brave being founded by one of the worst people in tech, and Opera being pretty much as bad these days.
"everything is chrome" is great because we can have things like Vivaldi, the most respectful and customizable browser ever made, and have them be dog fucking slow on a computer with an 8-core 4GHz CPU with 64GB of RAM, because the UI is written in fucking Javascript and is running on V8.
Slow and inefficient software makes CPUs throttle up to compensate. How much power are we wasting because everything is based on Chrome and Electron? How many thousands of tons of CO2 are being pumped into the atmosphere solely because of the modern web-based software development ecosystem?
but I'm sure that even if we're stuck with it and the abusive practices it encourages, it would still improve the situation if there was an alternative engine derived from eg Mozilla instead of it just being Carry Chrome And The Entire Google Ecosystem Around On Your Back Like A Turtle and no other options
Because you'd be singing the praises of the simplicity of HTML 5 and jQuery.
Just because I don't want to eat a big pile of dogshit doesn't mean I want to eat a slightly smaller pile either
Browsers are basically operating systems for everyone else's computers. We need to rethink the kernel architecture, because the story of electron is that we don't really have one to begin with.