Supposedly today we have a lot of browsers to choose from - Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc. Having choices is a good thing, right? Nobody wants to relive the time of almost complete Internet Explorer domination again. Unfortunately our choices are significantly fewer than they seem to be at first glance, as Chrome and Safari (thanks to the iPhone) totally dominate the browser landscape in terms of usage and almost all browsers these days are built on top of Chromium, Google’s open-source browser project. Funny enough even Edge is built on top of Chromium today, despite the bitter rivalry between Google and Microsoft. What’s also funny is that Chrome and Safari control about 85% of the browser market share today, and Microsoft’s Edge commands only about 4%:
  • kixik@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Well, I would extend FF to all derivative browsers, particularly those oriented to privacy, like Librewolf on the desktop and Mull on Android. Their in essence their FF counterparts with privacy settings applied, and removing binary blobs (yes FF still include some)... But I guess those are even less known than FF itself, :(, though overall, they depend on FF being maintained and progressing, since those projects don't develop a browser one their own...