I doubt you’re getting downvoted for saying that chrome is faster than firefox, but for the irony of using Linux with a Chromium based browser, while being on lemmy.
-
Chromium, while open source, is controlled by Google and a lot of browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Samsung Android, Vivaldi) are built on it, giving it a market share of around 75%.
-
Electron apps are frameworks based on Chromium (ie VSCode).
-
Google is evil and with Manifest V3, Adblockers like uBlock Origin, will eventually stop working for all derivatives (even for Vivaldi).
-
The future: Because Chromium got the de facto monopoly there is no need for Firefox support anymore and the big corpos (ie Microsoft is a sucker for Chromium/Electron) can turn what’s left of the “old” Internet into apps without the ability to block ads or tracking.
-
No “?”, just Profit.
I looked into it some months ago and if I’m not mistaken the dev referred to a “user profile” as “he” in an installation instruction text.
Then someone made a suggestion to change it to “they” and he answered that he didn’t want politics in his project.
My thoughts were that “they” didn’t fit and if changed, “user profile” should be “it” and not “they”.
He didn’t change it to “it” either though… It’s really not clear if it’s just bad English, a case of don’t tell me what to do or full blown bigotry.
My vote, at least for now, goes to overblown drama.