Google today reached the final milestone in a browser-extension transition that has been years in the making, all remaining Manifest V2 extensions were removed from the Chrome Web Store.
    • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 days ago

      The irony is that Chrome’s rendering engine was a fork of WebKit, which was a fork of KHTML, a free and open source rendering engine created by KDE for Konqueror. They basically took something free, used Microsoft’s “embrace, extend, extinguish” tactics on it. Now KHTML is vestigial, only found in the UserAgent string.

      But we could have had a truly free open source cross platform browser with Konqueror.

      Best we have now is Firefox, but the bulk of Mozilla’s development funding comes from setting Google as the default search. So it is also hijackable.

      • Bluewing@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        We could maybe have done that. But Konqueror has never been that good every time I tried it.

      • tazeycrazy@feddit.ukEnglish
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        9 days ago

        I think it’s the shear cost of operating a browser. I would hope Mozilla are looking to diversity there income but without ads or sales to end users I’m not sure where it can go.