Mozilla is trying to figure out if the Firefox Compact mode removal is a good idea – Ghacks Technology News

@IronHeart

>You do realize though that others can take the open source code of Chromium and create their own fork of it, right?

As of now yes, but listen carefully. Brave is an irrelevant common peasant in googles kingdom of control, chromium forks like Brave and vivaldi are not a threat to googles browser share and influence as of now. If however Brave/Vivaldi does get more popular and grabs more market share, then expect google to

(A) Pull the plug on chromium open source project and not maintain it any more to destroy the competition.

(B) Use a different engine and make it propietrary to destroy the competition.

Brave is putting itself into a bad predicament by applying a band aid to a broken product and putting all its eggs into the one basket. If they were serious about a real threat to google browser share, then Brave should have made their own engine.

They are not smart enough to make their own engine like mozilla did. Brave could have used gecko but it would seem brave is hanging on to mommy google because it knows chromium has the biggest market share and it will be fast and flashy and has more web compatibility than gecko. Brave only care about the potential for bitcoin profits, not preservation of gecko a real alternative to the increasing google/chromium browser monopoly.

Little does brave know that if it gets more popular, it will be on googles radar.

Google have already limited chromium forks from using certain API features from chrome, that it is a sign of things to come. They dont like the competition.

> Braves Tor windows are a gimmick, there is a reason why Tor Browser exists.

The whole brave browser is a gimmick unless you are a noob looking to escape the privacy invading google chrome/edge/opera/unhardened FF.

To people who actually know how to configure gecko and harden it, brave is a poor substitute not to mention its objectionable ad integration practices, people dont care if its opt in or not, its the principle of having it there is whats bothersome, because it could easily be open to abuse, privacy wise.

> This has nothing to do with Chromium, it was a bug introduced by Brave Software. If it really were a deep problem of Chromium, how did they fix it?

The privacy bug resided in the internal ad blocker component of Brave, thats V3 manifest for you, things break by trying to apply a band aid to chromium.

> I am prefering it over other options because there hasnt been an intentional breach of privacy with this browser yet

The failed tor windows was a breach of privacy, saying its a gimmick is no excuse, many users would have trusted in it not knowing it had a bug. It should not have happened. Its a stain on braves record, to deny it is futile.

> Yeah, but Mozilla is not Google-free

Well, having to constantly accept google chromium scraps like a peasant and having to apply a band aid to chromium is not exactly google free either. 🙁

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